Articles
Waterbench: sitting on water (storage)
Living in a tropical climate faces a lot of challenges, not in the least because periods of rain are often followed by droughts. With his Waterbench, Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel provides a place ...
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Ice: knitwear that changes colour when exposed to cold
If you ever regret putting on clothes in a certain colour in the morning, US clothing company Stone Island has found a solution for you. They created a knitwear collection called Ice, which is made ...
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Terracotta cones and water make for low-tech air-conditioning
With more and more places experiencing long periods of heat, findings ways to keep buildings cool is becoming increasingly important. Electric air-conditioning can be expensive and costs a lot of energy, so it is not ...
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New polymer walks like a caterpillar when illuminated
Imagine a material that could turn light directly into movement, without solar panels or other energy sources. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology and Kent State University have developed such a material. The polymer material ...
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Building roads and houses with cigarette butts
Annually, trillions of cigarettes are produced worldwide, resulting in millions of tonnes of toxic waste in the form of cigarette butts, many of which end up in the environment. As they do not biodegrade, but ...
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Self-healing asphalt can repair itself using a magnetic field
Cracks in asphalt are a common sight, but a pain to repair. It is expensive and because the roads need to be closed down for construction, traffic jams occur. Researchers at ETH Zurich and EMPA ...
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