The First Man-Made Biological Leaf Turns Light and Water Into Oxygen
Julian Melchiorri, a student at the Royal College of Art, has invented an artificial photosynthetic leaf after pondering interstellar travel. The future inches closer.
20 Open Source Furniture Designs
Open source furniture design is popping up these days. Open Design means mainly two things: documentation is shared freely so that users can make their own models, furnitures are made with digital fabrication and can be reproduce in a makerspace or FabLab.
Biospherics: What Nature Does for Us
John Allen’s focus on Biosphere 2 was different from the mainstream. Typically, biological and ecological research is devoted to understanding the individual parts of systems, or even ecosystems. Allen wanted to know how the whole thing worked.
Designing for the Other 90%
Sustainable design is a powerful concept for transforming our society. It combines the most important word of the 20th century, sustainability, with what will surely be the most important word of the 21st, design, in order to holistically solve some of the world's most pressing problems.
Blueprints of Utopia
HavAdda Island is a cybernetic-eco village in Turkey designed by NYC based designer, Dror.
Speak, Memory
Researchers have discovered how to store different forms of artificial short-term memory in the isolated brain tissue of rats.
Lasers Uncover the World
Instead of uncovering with the pickaxe of the past, archaeologists can now remotely survey micro topography with the use of laser technology.
Air Fuel
It sounds too good to be true, but it's not – Guy Negre has created the Airpod, a vehicle whose engine runs on air.
Start With Universe
Buckminster Fuller insisted that
the sense of separation from nature is a dangerous illusion, and that humanity's
evolutionary success is dependent on our willingness to learn from the
emergent behaviors of whole systems. This led him to re-imagine a big picture in
which our species is situated within the full continuum of creation.
Veggie Leather!
A London designer cultivates a guilt-free vegetable based leather substitute
