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Micro-organisms that adjust your shoes

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Sports company Puma is working on an experimental sports shoe that uses biologically active materials to adapt to the wearer’s foot. The shoe, presented at Milan Design Week, is the result of a collaboration with ...

Concept

3D printing the Notre Dame from its own ashes

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Dutch concrete 3D printing firm CONCR3DE suggests to rebuild the Notre Dame by 3D printing its ashes. Last week, the roof of the Notre Dame in Paris was destroyed in a fire. Since then, President ...

Furniture inlaid with shells and feathers

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Welsh designer Bethan Gray and material company Nature Squared collaborated for the project Exploring Eden, a collection of furniture and accessories inlaid with natural iridescent materials like feathers and shells. Nature Squared is a material ...

Sense & Sensibility

A brick façade inspired by fabric folds

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Architectural firm Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten designed a brick façade that seems to move like fabric. The façade is designed for the building of the Association of the Northwest German Textile and Garment Industry. The ...

A shoe made from only 1 material

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Sportswear brand Adidas introduces Futurecraft.Loop, sneakers made from only one recyclable material, eliminating the need to disassemble the shoe before reuse. The Futurecraft.Loop shoe is introduced as a ‘running shoe that is made to be ...

Stronger than graphene: new wonder material borophene

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Researchers at MIT and Xiamen University in China discovered a number of remarkable properties of borophene, a 2D material that could push graphene out of the limelight. Graphene is considered to be a wonder material. ...