“We have to work together to stop this pandemic. All of us have to stay safe and have to use...
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If Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
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Mechanical engineer and Star Trek fan Anjan Contractor fascinated the world when he demonstrated a 3D printer that could print pizza back...
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Buying a car so often feels like an environmentally bad thing to do. The automotive industry’s sins are legion: overproduction,...
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Could 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
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Not content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
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It is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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To stay ahead in an increasingly automated world, we’ll need to be more human than ever. You’ve probably heard the...
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The Fabricademy program is training a global community of transdisciplinary designers to propose new ways of making, designing, wiring and...
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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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Africa’s first space for democratic technology has now produced over twenty 3D printers made from e-waste. Over one billion...
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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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A new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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Want a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
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“In the 20th century, we learned to read, so we could read to learn. Now, we’re learning to make so...
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Millions of amputees worldwide live with the loss of a limb, especially in developing countries that don’t often have access...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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Scott Nelson wants to fully embed a a resource-based economy inside existing market capitalism, just by issuing credit to people...
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Submitted by you: Coming out of Zug, Switzerland (dubbed 'Crypto Valley'), ShapeShift’s goal is ‘to be the fastest, most private...
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Submitted by you: Sending money home to families throughout Indonesia is fraught with issues – finding a physical location, fees, transaction...
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Submitted by you: The Estonians have a long history of trying new things in digital, and blockchain is no exception....
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Submitted by you: Ownership is a core area that most people ignore or don't think about when it comes to...
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Submitted by you: Based in Israel, Amos Meiri and the 30+ strong team at Colu are helping people to support...
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By now we all know that indestructible plastic is bad for the planet. A massive amount ends up in our oceans...
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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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Part of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
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Trainee pilots get flight simulators and now medical students get 3D printed artificial organs that can be poked, prodded and...
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Two Afghan refugees are raising global awareness of a neglected topic: landmines. There are 110 million landmines worldwide – and every day ten...
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A lifelong boater and self-professed ‘beach bum’ wants to stop virgin plastic from entering the ocean ever again. And help...
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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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Dubai wants to be the world leader in 3D printing – and the 'City of Gold' has a mega-plan. Their 'Office of the...
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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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Plants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
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Did you know that origami isn’t just useful for creating swans or cranes – or folding solar arrays for launch...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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With more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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The more our lives have been transposed to the internet, the larger our personal data trails have become. Bank details,...
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Today some of the most advanced 3D printing techniques in the world are being developed by German company Nanoscribe, who are...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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In space and forgotten your spanner? No problem. In November 2014 a 3D printer successfully printed its first object in...
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Protected by armed guards, the last male northern white rhino’s valuable horn has been sawn off as black market rhino...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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Tough Turban offers a solution to close the gap between religious freedom and safety for Canadian Sikh riders. In...
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GreenWaves’ vertical, regenerative underwater farming reduces ocean acidity, absorbs carbon, provides nutritious food and just might create a ton of...
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Get ready to enter a new dimension for medical imaging as the world's only accurate and interactive 3D holograms equip...
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Reopened in November 2020 after a major renovation, Sydney’s Australian Museum brings a focus on climate solutions and First Nations...
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This activewear helps clean the oceans, reduces waste and limits the number of pieces in our wardrobes – all while...
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South Korea has pioneered an innovative way of testing for the novel coronavirus – inspired by the drive-through counters at McDonalds...
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Crack open the sherry, gin and Pimms, because Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ is on the sound system; Hetty has donned her...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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One person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
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For decades, the high prices of computers has prevented most of the world’s population from being able to buy PCs...
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US election outcomes are always governed by expensive campaigns and big money, but this year the role of money has...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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There is nothing more effective than healthy competition to spur innovators onwards and, in the case of Drones for Good,...
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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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There isn’t a magic pill to cure the world’s diseases, and there isn’t a one size fits all solution for...
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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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