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A 3D printed airless basketball
Sports equipment manufacturer Wilson Sporting Goods developed a 3D printed airless basketball. Called Airless Gen1, the ball consists of a 3D printed polymer lattice structure, rather than inflation. The basketball nearly fits the performance specifications ...
Read more >Biotextiles as light diffuser
For the 2023 exhibition of the Mindcraft Project, Natural Material Studio used their biotextiles in lighting objects to diffuse and spread light. The textiles are made of a mixture of biopolymers, natural softeners and chalk. ...
Read more >Sugarcrete: a sweet concrete alternative?
Researchers at the University of East London (UEL) in the UK developed a low carbon material called Sugarcrete, made of sugarcane. Sugarcane is the world’s largest crop by production volume. When the material is processed ...
Read more >A 4D knitted dress
Researchers at MIT Self-Assembly Lab along with Ministry of Supply have combined several technologies to create a garment that is sculpted to create a personalised fit or style. Generally, in the making of a garment, ...
Read more >A multispecies habitat made of living trees
Design studio Terreform ONE constructed a reef-like structure that is formed using tree-grafting methods, as a ‘multispecies habitat’. Called Fab Tree Hab, the ‘terrestrial reef’ is 92 square metre (1000 square feet) and combines indigenous ...
Read more >Non-iridescent structural colour ink
Researchers at Kobe University in Japan developed non-fading structural colours that do not depend on the viewing angle and can be printed. An object has colour when light of a specific wavelength is reflected. With ...
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