what’s better than composting dishes? eating them! amit zoran‘s coffee cups are made from baklava so you can eat them when you’re finished drinking the coffee. anna bullus‘ ‘one cup or two’ is made of sugar, so the coffee gets sweeter over time (some version have flavorings too). what if everything was edible? via
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wastelands
today’s AP story about the falseness of e-waste recycling is a little late, nevertheless it points out the important fact the electronics can’t really be recycled (much like other products), rather they’re burned and hacked apart to salvage what little precious metals they contain. the most important point of the article is that recycling of […]
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artificial tusks
in the late nineteenth century billiard balls were the fourth most important use of ivory, after knife handles, piano keys and combs, but they required the largest and highest quality tusks. nearly 50 tons of ivory were made into billiard balls each year for the european and american markets. consumption had exhausted supplies almost entirely, […]
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future fashion
anyone considering submitting to this year’s seamless fashion show might want to watch this compilation of projects from last summer’s siggraph unravel show of future fashions. this is my latest edit of all the projects i was able to grab as well as interviews with a number of designers.
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free chairs! (as in beer, not speech)
tom dixon had a chair grab in trafalgar square where hundreds of his polystyrene chairs were available for anyone to take home. but then, to make money, he coated eight of the same chairs in copper and has them on sale for an unnamed price at moss. i like this new application of the open […]
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CSIphone
this excellent video is just greenpeace’s latest effort to PRessure apple into adopting somewhat better environmental policies – using the dissection of a popular device to reveal the inherent ugliness of what lies inside. in this case, brominated fire retardants and phthalates in PVC. while shown to be somewhat toxic, these compounds have remained legal […]
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user-generated art
rudolf stingel makes installations out by covering the walls of a gallery with panels of celotex tuff-R, an insulated foil-covered foam that invited visitors to scratch, gouge, rip and insert objects like a giant graffiti wall. it’s a very moving experience because there is a chaotic overlay of multi-scaled art unique and predictable. these installations […]
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public display of affection
i taped barabara layne’s ‘jacket antics‘ at the siggraph 2007 unravel fashion show – a set of jackets woven with LED marquees on their backs. the displays are an extension of the woven fabric, with the added ability to connect two people holding hands into a single display. from the catalog: Jacket Antics feature unique […]
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