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A wooden gravel bicycle

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Italian company MLK Innovazione designed a gravel bike made of laminated wood. The frame of the bike, called Ornus, is made of laminated ash wood. The geometry of the frame, the orientation of the fibres ...

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A 3D printed concrete bridge made with recycled materials

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Swiss building materials manufacturer Holcim, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group, and incremental3D, created what is said to be a first of its kind, 3D printed concrete masonry bridge ...

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A ‘green living paint’ that produces oxygen

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Researchers at the University of Surrey in the UK have developed an oxygen-producing, carbon dioxide-absorbing water-based paint containing a species of cyanobacteria, dubbed green living paint. Cyanobacteria are also called blue-green algae and are increasingly ...

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A pavilion made of plywood

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Students of the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC) created a pavilion made of birch plywood and galvanized steel plates. Called Pentaura Pavilion, the timber structure was made for a primary school, to give the students ...

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Dyeing clothes with genetically engineered bacteria

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The British company Colorfix developed a method to genetically engineer bacteria to produce certain colour making enzymes. More than a hundred billion articles of clothing are made every year, which are mostly dyed with synthetic, ...

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Wind turbine blades made of wood

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German company Voodin Blade Technology developed wind turbine blades made of wood. Conventional wind turbine blades are made of a composite of fibreglass and carbon fibres that is very hard to recycle. 78 per cent ...

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