Newspaper Wood: Paper Pages Turn into Wood
NewspaperWood by Vij5 and Mieke Meijer is a unique example of upcyling materials and flipping the resource to product process. Instead of using wood as a source to make paper, NewspaperWood uses the paper to make wood. The design came out of Meijer’s project at the Design Academy Eindhoven. For a student design project, Meijer took stacks of newspapers, glued [...]
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Pic Nic Pants – Pants with a Built in Table
Have you ever wanted to just sit down and eat lunch? A new pair of pants that also acts as a table might be able to help you eat in any location. The pants were created by an experimental Italian design company called Acquacalda,. The Picnic Pants have a special panel that becomes a flat surface to balance your plate [...]
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No-Idling Laws Lowers Air-Alert Days
During the summer months, it is not uncommon to see a haze in the sky due to ground-level ozone pollution. This lower ozone pollution is created when emissions from factories, trucks, buses, and construction equipment are exposed to strong sunlight and long hot days. The emissions are linked with increased asthma attacks and shortness of breath which affect children, the [...]
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Can you build a machine to hammer a nail? The Rube Goldberg Competition
Rube Goldberg’s cartoons of funny complex inventions that would do simple operations have inspired artists, scientists and engineers for many years. Some of his cartoons included solutions for how to get the cotton out of an aspirin bottle and how to make a simple alarm clock . Goldberg had a background in engineering that informed the contraptions that he drew. [...]
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Wordle – Create “Word Clouds” from Text
Want to visualize some text in a new way? Wordle is a webtool that can generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. You can copy and paste text, put in a webpage, or enter text into the tool. The tool gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can adjust the Wordle by [...]
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