Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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Projects
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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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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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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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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These low-cost wooden drones can reforest burned forests ecologically – and fast. Sowing 100 seeds per second using drones...
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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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Calling all doctors, nurses, engineers and designers: coronavirus wants you! Ventilators are essential for taking care of people struggling to breathe...
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“We have to work together to stop this pandemic. All of us have to stay safe and have to use...
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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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Backpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
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The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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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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Do you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
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Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is an example of a distributed 21st century design. Their purpose is to democratise mobility – by enabling...
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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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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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If Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
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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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Submitted by you: Communities for Development was created when engineers Iñigo Ruiz Apilánez and Sandra Díaz returned from a stint...
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In the words of the people behind it, this might just be "the coolest thing you will see all year". And they're not...
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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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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
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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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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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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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Did you know that origami isn’t just useful for creating swans or cranes – or folding solar arrays for launch...
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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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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 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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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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In space and forgotten your spanner? No problem. In November 2014 a 3D printer successfully printed its first object in...
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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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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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