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Retour de marché du salon Interzum de Cologne! Une moisson assez exceptionnelle cette année, tellement riche que nous préparons pour nos membres un dossier spécial ou ils retrouveront toutes les infos sur la centaine de matériaux référencés. Mais dès à présent un petit appetizer, avec un panneau fibre allégé, un textile diffractant en feuilleté entre deux floats, un gel en nida carré, mais qui sait aussi être tout en rondeur...
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The song is unbearable, we just recommend you to turn off the sound but the principle is efficient. The singer (Carrie Underwood for the experts) wears a dress with a Sissi Empress style, made out of a super-reflective textile and various animations are projected on it during its performance. Obviously, Carrie is a little bit restrained in her movements in order for the light ajustments to keep on working but that's not the main concern here!
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A poster that does not deliver the same message, depending on you being an adult or a child. A complex idea the Spanish organization against child abuse (ANAR) has had... The solution is a lenticular film glued to the poster which offers two different messages depending on the point of view. Adults will see the general message and children will be able to also read a phone number, to contact in case of abuse. Of course, if the adult is not tall or if the kid is perched on someone's shoulders...it won't work!
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A mineral newsletter, in honor of the new exhibition at Le Lieu du Design...
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To be more precise, it is based on the mucus from a charming hagfish (the Myxine) that Canadian scientists from the Guelph University have developped the textiles of the future. Myxine is a necrophagous kind of eel, defending itself by secreting a gel which inflates in order to stick its attackers in a thick paste, similar to slime! Can you imagine? Only 5 grammes of secretion under the form of dry fibres inflate when in contact with water, faster than any material we know, to immediately become 20 liters of a viscous, sticky and very solid substance. The fibers it is made up are a hundred time thinner than a human hair and very resistant, stronger than high performance fibers such as Kevlar and close to spider silk! With one milligramme of mucus, you can produce 10 sweaters. According to the Canadian scientists, the fibers extracted from these mucous fluids could become the basis for future bulletproof vests as well as for our future everyday clothes! The ecologic advantage is obvious as production does not refer to petrochemistry and the product is fully biodegradable.
We should shortly enjoy those 'ocean silks' (more glamourous and easier to sell than 'fish snot'!)
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Here is the concept car ME.WE : 'beautiful for ME, good for the others (WE)', the fruits of a partnership between Toyota and Jean-Marie Massaud's office.
A simple aluminium tubular structure, on which is affixed an expanded polypropylene (EPP) customizable body (you know, expanded polypropylene being the cousin of expanded polystyrene, just as light but with better mechanical and resistance properties). The result is that the casing only weights 14 kg and the whole car is 25% lighter than a regular one of the same size. Bamboo slivers cover the dashboard and extend to form the hood. They also cover the remaining horizontal surfaces, floor and roof included.
A crisis-time and sustainability-era vehicle... This tiny cross-country car, multipurpose and convertible, is somewhat reminiscent of the now-very hype Mehari!
What will it be : yellow or anthracite? Diamond-shaped or perforated EPP?
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New from ferrofluids! They will now be used to respond to sounds and music surrounding. This project named ferrocious is being funded on Kickstarter and has already far exceeded its goals. An electromagnet located at the top of the tank responds to sound thereby causing a movement from the ferrofluide. His reaction is around 250Hz and below, which means it reacts to sounds of drums or voice. It is still possible to fund this project for a week to be among the first to receive this technological sculpture and to compare the reaction of the fluid with blues or rock. The creator of this electronic sculpture first discovered users's videos playing with ferrofluide on Youtube, he needed a good excuse to play with it in his turn! That is done!
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We already discussed, few weeks ago, the new band-aid system developped by the team of Professor Karp (MIT), a complex of three layers which allowed to not pull out skin on a baby skin as a sticky silicone was temporarily remaining on the surface... well, it seems this team is quite efficient in the matter of band-aid as they just released a new one : a revolutionary principle of durable adhesion on skin under any circumstance and no pain during the removal! Inspired by the adhesion mode of a parasitic worm, this bandage is spiked with micro-points which sink into epidermis and expand under the cellular hydration. Prospeacts are huge, for transplant, treatment of serious burn victims and all the questions of bandages and sutures.
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In between gore and biomimicry, here are the last projects of British artist Jessica Harrison. A series of prototypes of very traditional armchairs and sofas but coated with a silicone surface which reproduces in a quite disturbing way the human skin, with its color variations, its folds, its hairs and imperfections...
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Après une première gamme de lunettes de soleil en contre-plaqué bois, le lunetier américain Shwood vient de dévoiler sa nouvelle collection « Stone », qui sur cette même armature bois vient collé une très fine feuille d'ardoise naturelle. Ces lunettes en pierre restent confortables, bien ajustées, d'une facture irréprochable, l'ensemble étant entièrement fabriqué à la main!
Et inutile de vous inquiéter pour le poids supporté par votre nez, la monture reste très légère, le placage d'ardoise faisant moins d'un millimètre d'épaisseur!
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