Made using hemp, cork, bio-cotton, certified biodegradable plastics, chlorine-free bleach and other nontoxic materials, the shoes are designed to completely break down when buried in the ground – the first batch will even come with seeds in their tongues, so that wildflowers will sprout up in commemoration of users’ planted, expired kicks.
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Read moreMarco Peresani at the University of Ferrara in Italy found 660 bird bones mixed in with Neanderthal bones in Fumane cave in northern Italy. Many of the wing bones were cut and scraped where the flight feathers were once attached, suggesting the feathers had been systematically removed.
Just like the shells which Neanderthals may have worn as jewellery, Peresani thinks the feathers were used as ornaments. He dismisses other explanations on the grounds that many of the species are poor food sources and fletched arrows had not been invented at the time. João Zilhão at the University of Barcelona in Spain says it is more evidence that Neanderthals were as cultured as H. sapiens
Water Sculpture (by Shinichi Maruyama)
“Maruyama tells The Morning News that he uses a Phase One P45 camera and a Broncolor Strobe to capture his fleeting sculptures. He can’t fully control the exact shape and form of the colliding sheets of water, but that’s the whole point: they’re more beautiful for their unexpected physics than any mere human could ever pre-visualize. And Maruyama doesn’t just work with water – apparently he’s just as handy with ink and paint, too.”
More here http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662931/liquid-sculptures-that-only-last-for-an-instant-video
All in all: fun times. Expect them to get weirder. I mean, aggrieved optical illusion creators don’t have anything like the political and legislative clout of other potential 3D printing complexifiers. Imagine what happens when some magistrate in Alabama decides that Thingiverse is liable for hosting 3D models of sex toys (illegal in AL) and issues a bench warrant for Bre Pettis’s arrest. Or when someone from Shapeways shows up at CES in Vegas, only to discover that the state Drug Enforcement Agency has issued a warrant on the basis of a bong design available at Shapeways, violating the state’s strict anti-drug-paraphenalia laws. Or someone from i.materialise gets an EU extradition request from Germany because someone’s printed a detailed, historically accurate toy soldier with a swastika armband, violating Germany’s strict laws against Nazi paraphernalia.
And just wait until someone creates a printer that can reproduce patented pharmaceutical compounds or Monsanto’s patented life-forms! Now there are a couple of villains with a lot of resources to throw at making the whole Internet’s life miserable in order to squeeze an extra 0.05% into the quarter’s bottom line.
Of course Cory’s been thinking about this (and helping us to too) for years
http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/after-the-siege.html
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 