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    Sustainable bricks made from plastic bottles

    The alarming increase of plastic waste is a constant worry that affects the environment, wildlife and consequently, humans. Every year, millions of tons of plastic is accumulated and all of that takes around 500 years to decompose. Faced with this problem, the ...
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    GHOST: Technology that leaps out of the screen

    Today we live in a world of flat-screen displays we use all day – whether it’s the computer in the office, a smartphone on the train home, the TV or iPad on the couch in the evening. The world we ...
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    Cooling Pods Are Welcome Ally in Fight Against Heat Pollution

    City centers are touted for having lower carbon footprints than their suburban counterparts. Shorter commutes and smaller homes may make this the case, but urban heat islands complicate this sustainability issue. Clouds Observatory is a design strategy for reducing heat ...
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    Just a minute – Temporary house for Nepal earthquake emergency

    An earthquake can ruin the life of an entire community in a minute. This instant temporary home can give a new chance to start their life again in “just a minute” as well. The main idea of the project is ...
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    Slaughter-free leather will make our world ‘more cultured’

    More than 60 billion land animals are currently required to supply the demands of six billion people for meat and leather. Farming those animals requires 38 percent of all ice-free land, eight percent of global water and emits 14 percent ...
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    SprayPrinter offers a new way to paint your walls

    ‘SprayPrinter‘ is a new technology from estonia, created by a small startup that has come up with a printer that converts digital designs into wall art wirelessly. all you need is to download an application to your smartphone, choose your ...
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    The future of shopping is . . . second life on acid?

    When Victor Gruen invented the shopping mall in 1956, he wanted to give suburban citizens a sorely needed third place to socialize and shop. Today, malls have been usurped by e-commerce. And while the ease of one-click shopping fulfills the ...
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    Clothes with inbuilt air conditioning

    Researchers at the Technical Research Centre of Finland — VTT — have developed a mass production method for wearable air conditioning technology. The system — called Alykangas — consists of microscopic channels of plastic that can be integrated into garments, ...
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    This Swimming Robot Digests Pollution And Turns It Into Electricity

    This is the Row-Bot, a robot that walks on water, and gets its energy by eating the microbes in dirty ponds and “digesting” them in its artificial stomach. Using this method, it generates more than enough power to propel itself ...