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The VIVOBAREFOOT ‘Kanna’ is an all-new barefoot movement shoe with a lightweight and flexible design that provides plenty of protection and sensory feedback for activities like walking, dancing, yoga or Pilates workouts. As VIVOBAREFOOT describes, its newly launched footwear design ...
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Americans consume 8.6 billion water bottles — every year. Of those, only 1 of 5 is recycled. Fortunately, a handful of MIT students have developed a solution to this problem, and it involves repurposing waste plastic bottles to reinforce concrete. Because the newly-invented method ...
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Architecture Research Office and FilzFelt have teamed up to create ARO Block, a series of modular acoustic tiles that provide sound control in a customizable, easy-to-install system. Generated from remnant material of FilzFelt’s CNC cut products, which are often times ...
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The interior, textile and concept designer, Charlotte Jonckheer is a graduate from the Design Academy Eindhoven (2014). Her work starts from an investigation of human behavior and observation of nature in order to create an obvious understanding between the object and its ...
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When something inexpensive breaks, the instinct is often to throw it out and buy a new one. Offering a solution to this unsustainable disposable culture is Peter Marigold’sFORMcard, a reusable card made from thermoplastic, which melts in a cup of ...
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A collaboration between Tangible Media Group, MIT and New Balance has resulted in a breakthrough in bio-skin technology. BioLogic is a new material designed to react to heat and sweat through living bacteria that are built into the fabric using ...
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Low-e coatings play an important role in the overall performance of a window and can significantly affect the overall heating, lighting, and cooling costs of a home. But what exactly is low-e glass? How does it work? To answer these ...
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For years, Boeing has been developing an extremely lightweight material that could be used for airplane parts. Despite being made from metal and being nearly as strong as titanium, the material is 100 times lighter than styrofoam. This week, they ...
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Russian artist, Nikolay Polissky, has recently completed the SELPO Pavilion, located in Nikola-Lenivets Park, which contains 28 permanent art works. About the pavilion SELPO (acronym for The Rural Consumer Association in Russian) is a sculpture which wraps around a soviet ...