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3D printed customised accessories for gamers

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A collaboration between Ikea, Unyq and Area Academy presents the first prototypes from their series of 3D printed products for gamers which can be customised for individual use. Worldwide, more than 2 billion people are ...

3D printed concrete columns

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In collaboration with the Origen Festival in Riom, Switzerland, a team at ETH Zürich created nine individually designed concrete columns, each 3D printed at full height in 2.5 hours, for a project called Concrete Choreography. ...

Grow your own algae in an indoor micro-algae farm

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Designer Hyunseok An developed a wall-mounted bioreactor system called The Coral, to grow your own algae for consumption. Algae thrive on CO2, having a ten times greater carbon dioxide fixation than terrestrial plants. Additionally, the ...

Recycling old glass into better concrete

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Researchers at Deakin University’s School of Engineering in Australia found that ground recycled or waste glass can be used instead of sand when making polymer concrete, resulting in a stronger, cheaper product. Concrete is one ...

Harvesting fresh water from the sea with hydrogel

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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) found a way to harvest water from the humid air over water surfaces using a water-absorbing hydrogel. About 70 per cent of the earth is covered in ...

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Plastic, the new natural stone?

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Marine biologists at the Marine and Environmental Research Center (MARE) on the Portuguese island of Madeira reported on “plasticrust”, a veneer of plastic encrusted on shoreline rocks. Plastic waste is everywhere. Cities are littered with ...