Tag: Dematerialization
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Mass customization is The Trend of the Year, As Customers Get To Decide What They Want
More and more designers and companies are letting the end user decide what they want their furniture to look like.
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From Hermit Crab Shells To Moon Bases: 19 Amazing Things You Can Do With 3D Printing
We are at the stage that the Commodore 64 was for the computer: Just going mainstream and the start of what may be a third industrial revolution.
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Why Can't We All Just Get Along? 3D Printed Blocks Let You Connect Your Lego To Your MegaBlok To Your Lincoln Logs
It is less about what it does as a toy, and more about the meaning of copyright and the future of corporate control.
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Flatpack Bed Is Held Together by Ratchet Straps
Have I mentioned that I love ratchet straps? Here is a bed design that you can assemble in minutes.
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Have a Frappé With Your Flatpack: Fab Café Combines Coffee Shop with Laser Cutting Service
We should have seen this coming: The coffeeshopification of laser cutting and 3D printing
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In the Future, Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
Stephen Gordon describes the coffeeshopification of our education, our jobs and our lives.
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Mind-blowing Digital 3D Printing of Super-Green Houses is Happening Now
A building system where an entire house is printed out on a CNC machine and assembled in days.
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Anil Dash On Where 3D Printing Is Headed
A terrific article on the future of the concept
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3D Printing Gets Real, and Real Silly: Build Your Own Robot
Yes indeed, you can design your own robot and they will print it out and mail it to you. Could This Be The Killer App?
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The Opportunity Green Conference in Los Angeles: Sustainability Driven by Capitalism, Health Wristbands, and More
Highlights at the annual conference included a smart wristband that monitors diet, movement, and sleep.
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Apple is Replacing My Original iPod Nano. Is This A Good Thing?
The thing is six years old. Is this the responsible, green thing to do?
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Enter A Competition To Show How 3D Printing Might Change The World
People may be able to "print themselves out of poverty" with this technology.
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Your Office Is In Your Pants, Update: Smart Phones are the New Laptop
Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times shows how to make the office more minimal than ever.
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Do You Still Use A Business Card? (Survey)
Business practices are changing; is the business card dead?
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Smartphones As "Digital Keys" Coming To Doors Near You
The dematerialization continues, right down to our keys. The plastic ID badges that people hold up to readers at doorways to get into secure areas could soon be replaced by simply holding up your cell phone.
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Less is More; a Dinner Table for Two Reduced to Its Essence
This designer from Valencia in Spain believes that even if you have little money and/or space, a dinner for two should always be possible on a decent table. Daniel Gantes designed La Cool Vie Bohème so that couples with a
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Cardboard USB Sticks! Are these disposable USB flash drives a green option? (Photos)
A while back, Jaymi wrote an interesting post discussing 7 greener options for give-away USB flash drives. Whilst some made of wood or bamboo are truly gorgeous, they are also overdesigned, and probably too expensive to compete with non-green USB
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Have 3D Printing and Mass Customization Reached The Tipping Point?
In 2007, TreeHugger built a special website that looked at the future of 3d Printing and Downloadable Designs. I wrote:
