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LIBERATOR : The First Printed Plastic Gun

IDEA PAINT : Turn Any Surface Into A Dry Erase Board

COSMIC WONDER : The Mysterious Fukang Meteorite

AEROGRAPHITE: World’s Lightest Solid Material

THE MOST EXTREME SUBSTANCES KNOWN TO MAN

THE CLEARPLEX SCREEN PROTECTOR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

ICEBREAKER MERINO: Reinventing Wool As a Performance Fiber

iPAVIMENT: Embeds WiFi Hotspots In The Street

AIRBIKE: The Bike Made of Steel-Strength Nylon by EADS

NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIAL THAT GETS STRONGER WHEN STRESSED

TRON DESIGNS CORIAN® USING LIGHTTAPE®

LAB-GROWN SYNTHETIC SKIN COULD REPLACE ANIMALS IN COSMETIC TESTING

SACHIKO KODAMA’s ferrofluids

NEW MATERIAL THAT COMBINES STREGTH OF STEEL AND MOLDABILITY OF PLASTIC

IRIS VAN HERPEN’S ESCAPISM COLLECTION

THE UNBREAKABLE UMBRELLA

THE COST-EFFECTIVE SELF-HEALING CONCRETE

D30: The Bullet-Proofing Material

THE BODY-ARMOR T-SHIRT

THE LIGHTTAPE® by Electro-LuminX ®

THE BOMB-PROOF WALLPAPER by Berry Plastics

PHOTOVOLTAIC GLASS WINDOW by Rainbow Solar

POWER GENERATING WINDOWS

CARBON CLOTH: highly effective at removing pollutants

NANOTUBES + CARBON FIBER = REINFORCED PLASTICS

FIBERS THAT CAN HEAR AND SING ?

MATERIAL BREAKTHROUGH WIN NOBEL PRIZE

THE NEW ANTIBACTERICAL FOOD PACKAGING

TIFOAM (Titanium Foam) by InnoTERE

CLOTES MADE OF SOUND RECORDING FABRIC

LYCRA & DIM: crea il collant non smagliabile

RAVENBRICK WINDOW: automatically changes transparency with temperature

THE REVERSIBLE SCREEN JACKET BY PIQUADRO: when nanotech meets fashion

METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS:could filter carbon from smokestack emissions

THE MACHINE THAT CAN PRINT BUILDINGS

CHARGE YOUR PHONE PLUG IN YOUR JEANS ?

NEW ADHESIVE DEVICE: could let humans to walk on walls ?

BIOACTIVE NANOMATERIAL: enables humans to grow new cartilage

THE METAL FOAM

NANOPOOL’S LIQUID GLASS: the case is clear for spray-on glass

CARBON NANOTUBES: used to make batteries from fabrics

507 CARAT DIAMOND SOLD FOR $35 MILLION

POWER-GENERATING RUBBER: sheets harness body movement to power electrical devices

3D POSTERS WITHOUT GLASSES

VERSATILE WALL TILES by Yigit Ozer for Kutahya Seramik

SMART ENERGY GLASS (SEG) by Peer+

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS: new tissue-hugging implants

SELF-HEALING MATERIALS: could lead to safer nuclear reactors

THIN FLEXIBLE SOLAR PANELS by PowerFilm Inc.

THIN FILM SOLAR PANELS by NREL

SPIDER-INSPIRED water-repelling surface could lead to self-cleaning windows

MATERIALICA Design + Technology Award 2010

TECAtech Produces Startling Prism Case for New Eyewear Brand

Clay-based HYDROGELS could be green alternative to polymers

HEAT RESISTANT GLUE solves sticky problem for architects

ECOSMART MATERIALS by Creative Reource

COLDBLACK® by Schoeller Textil

LEGHE A MEMORIA DI FORMA

WEARABLE ELECTRONICS