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Disposable cups made from mould-grown gourds

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Jun Aizaki, the founder of New York-based design studio Crème Design, and his team created HyO, a prototype disposable cup made from a gourd grown inside a 3D printed mould. Take-away coffee usually comes in ...

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Raingear and swimwear made from recycled plastic bottles

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Alarmed by the prediction that plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by weight in 2050, several companies have turned to recycling plastic bottles to make raingear and swimwear. When it comes to make plastic ...

Unbreakable flexible OLED display can withstand a hammer

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Korean company Samsung Display announced its unbreakable smartphone panel passed a series of durability tests. The screen consists of a flexible OLED panel with an unbreakable substrate and an plastic overlay window securely adhered to ...

3,350 repurposed space blankets at the Burning Man Festival

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Russian entrepreneur Alexander Shtanuk has started a crowdfunding campaign to fun a project that aims to transform discarded NASA space blankets to create a shady area for festivalgoers of the Burning Man festival in Nevada. ...

Flip-flops made from sugarcane-derived foam

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Footwear company Allbirds developed SweetFoam, said to be the world’s first green EVA. The material is introduced in the form of flip-flops. EVA stands for ethylene-vinyl acetate, an elastic polymer that produces materials with a ...

Recycling an old bridge and dead coral to restore reefs

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In an attempt to restore bleaching coral reefs, initiatives make artificial reefs using an old bridge and dead coral. Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems, often dubbed as the rainforests of the sea. When coral ...