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Materials scientists at the Harvard University envision sets of paper robots that could be used during surgery, in situations where a more delicate touch is needed. They say that air could be used to fold the paper robots like origami. The resulting structures would be able to lift 120 times their own weight.
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13 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Most of the car fans are aware of the impact their passion has on the environment. At this point in time, vehicles equipped with big engines are considered important polluters, lowering air quality all across the Globe. However, Jonathan Brand, a talented artist, has managed to reduce his carbon footprint and still r... |
18 January 2012
11:08 GMT |
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[*UPDATE January 19, 2012] The APP has reached out to us and provided some clarification on the issue. Their statement is included in full below, at the end of the article. Nowadays, major brands do everything in their power to preserve their reputation and increase profit margins without disrupting the envir... |
18 January 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Swedish artist Cecilia Levy is combining her passion for fine arts with a creative environmental awareness to launch a line of unconventional amazing tea cups made from recycled book pages. She has succeeded in making traditional origami look dull and useless. So far, her talent has been rewarded properly, since sh... |
4 January 2012
04:38 GMT |
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A new iPhone app could revolutionize the way we do business nowadays. Forget about the pen left at home, the tons of paper manufactured and distributed annually and the millions of hectares of forests destroyed over this cause. Due to an innovative Adobe EchoSign application, users can sign important documents dire... |
22 December 2011
09:58 GMT |
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Japanese researchers are one step closer to an extraordinary discovery that could make common books end up in museums while playing with the popularity of tablets and other high-tech gadgets. Their finding has also more than a few environmental benefits. Kohei Tsuji and Akira Wakita from Keio University in Japan th... |
21 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Seattle is now the fourth eco-friendly city in the state that has decided to adopt and implement a plastic bag ban and a 5% fee on paper bags.
This initiative has been launched in an attempt to reduce environmental pollution, by determining clients to consider reusable shopping bags a viable, greener option, the Ne... |
20 December 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Sony may have just come up with one of the most ambitious bio-battery projects to date, albeit one with rather unfortunate implications for the world's forests.At least this is still a proof-of-concept, so lumberjacks needn't sharpen their axes just yet.All jokes aside, though, what Sony envisioned is a ba... |
19 December 2011
08:03 GMT |
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Environmental coalition Eyes on the Forest has recently issued a new report indicating that one of the most important companies producing paper products, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), is threatening the habitat of already extremely vulnerable creatures, like orangutans, tigers and elephants.
The new information highligh... |
14 December 2011
02:32 GMT |
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This is one of those inventions that might very well turn a big chunk of the IT industry on its head, provided the printer idea actually takes off.
ZINK is a relatively young company, founded in 2005, but it might just make printer ink totally unnecessary.
That is the nature of its focus: to create printers that d... |
6 December 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Victoria's Secret has adopted an eco-friendly attitude, after ForestEthics criticized its activity in 2004, stating that the major brand is responsible for wiping significant surfaces of woodland off the face of the Earth. The company which triggered the admiration of millions of women from all parts of the Glob... |
4 November 2011
11:47 GMT |
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Thanks to an innovation by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, experts are now capable of printing advanced photovoltaic circuits unto unconventional substrates such as paper and fabric. If this technology is scaled up and developed further, it could soon become possible to p... |
12 July 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Ninety million acres (364 217.078 km²) of Southern hardwood forests, and 600,000 acres (2 428.11385 km²) in 11 endangered forests and special areas in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Eco-Region, have recently seen their chances of survival grow, after the Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific (GP) has announced that &ldq... |
27 December 2010
09:26 GMT |
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It seems that technological wonders never cease, one of the most recent ones being a sort of method that a certain group of researchers claim to be able to turn paper into a monitor that can later be thrown into the trash.Even with all the advancements in virtual data storage and management, paper is still very much... |
23 November 2010
04:41 GMT |
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A group of experts at the Harvard University, led by chemistry professor George Whitesides, is aiming to develop a new paper lab-on-a-chip, which would act like a blood analyzer and will cost about a penny. The new scientific instrument will be no larger than the tip of a finger, and its primary function is to be use... |
26 February 2010
09:58 GMT |
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It has been revealed that two separate sections handling the most prominent US newspaper are fighting each other to get control of content distribution via iPad, as well as pricing. The move couldn’t have come at a worse time for the paper, as digital distribution of such content is set to take off with, or wit... |
17 February 2010
05:53 GMT |
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The student-run media staff of Abilene Christian University has announced its plans to publish the first student newspaper on Apple’s iPad. It will be the first paper of its kind, according to students and faculty members. A department has already taken the first steps to establish an iPad Task Force, according... |
29 January 2010
08:45 GMT |
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Apple is reportedly in talks with The New York Times and HarperCollins Publishers about offering content for its upcoming tablet device. Other tablet-related rumors say Apple isn’t likely to equip the device with OLED screens. Read on for more details on both matters. HarperCollins Publishers and NY Times deal... |
19 January 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Using little more than average office paper, a group of scientists has been able to produce batteries that are both printable and moldable. The achievement is very important because it opens the way for production processes, which could see the manufacturing of computers, cell phones and solar panels from this new ma... |
9 December 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Cellulose has for a long time been touted as a material that is capable to provide the foundation for a new type of batteries, that could power up small applications. For instance, they could be used in gift wraps, that could light up and say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Birthday.” But what phy... |
26 November 2009
03:09 GMT |
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Experts at the Harvard University have recently announced the development of inexpensive color display-like structures, entirely made of paper and thermochromic ink. The latter substance is the one found in 'mood rings' and disposable thermometers, and its basic property is that it changes color whenever te... |
1 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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According to experts at the US Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), working together with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the Rice University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, graphene exhibits some pretty interesting properties when subjected to in situ Joule-heating inside a t... |
24 June 2009
02:33 GMT |
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Following a recent breakthrough innovation that advocates the recycling of paper industry leftovers into liquid wood, researchers have come up with yet another method to ensure that less and less wood is being chopped off, and that more trees survive the paper-production process. In their quest for a potential replac... |
6 March 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Books will never fade away as the main repository of human knowledge, scientists know that much. But what will differ in the very near future will be the way in which their content will be accessed. For the masses, the current option of buying large books and encyclopedias that take a lot of space to store and degrad... |
25 February 2009
07:58 GMT |
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If you're planning to go shopping for Christmas wrapping paper this year, enjoy it, because it may be the last year when festive wrapping paper is actually made from, well, paper. Next year, you could witness the introduction of a new kind of decorative paper, made up of turkey feathers. It would appear that Bri... |
24 December 2008
05:01 GMT |
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It displays the contents of a newspaper, it's almost as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper, but it's far better than one. It is the e-paper, developed in Britain and produced in Germany.Regular newspapers will most definitely become extinct as early as next year. A credit card-thin plastic displaying dev... |
17 October 2008
04:30 GMT |
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State of the art field effect transistors found a new rival recently in the form of thin film transistors having as substrate and interstrate a single layer of paper. This is the first time when FETs find their way onto paper. The new field effect transistor with paper interstrate layer was developed by Elvira Fortun... |
22 July 2008
09:44 GMT |
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A massive amount of gold and other precious metals is used every year to fabricate electronic consumer devices such as computers, television sets and mobile phones. It might not seem so obvious at first, but the landfill may literally be a gold mine. The real problem with recycling these metals is that the process is... |
8 July 2008
05:00 GMT |
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Paper consists of mostly cellulose. The new biological nanopaper developed by Lars Berlund from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology is no different, only that it is as strong as cast iron and could be used one day to create strong sticky tape or tough synthetic replacements for biological tissues and stronger c... |
7 June 2008
04:42 GMT |
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You have a relatively simple task. Pulling off a piece of wallpaper glued onto a wall with the help of adhesive. Instinct tells us that it should pull off easily, in a single piece, however reality is very different. You should consider yourself lucky if you achieve this task without tearing off the wallpaper in sev... |
31 March 2008
08:41 GMT |
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Paper is something evanescent and durable at the same time. It is a milestone for the human civilization in the last two millennia. From high quality to ordinary packing paper, toilet paper, pampers, carnival paper clothes or printing paper, all comes from a Chinese idea. People always sought for ideal surfaces for r... |
13 February 2008
10:16 GMT |
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One of the most important discoveries made by man is the paper. Today, paper is so common that we do not even perceive its real value, but till getting to it, the human kind had to wait. People have always felt the necessity of an efficient writing support to fix and preserve their knowledge, feelings, beliefs and, t... |
12 February 2008
07:21 GMT |
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Chinese were the first people to make paper 2,200 years ago. They were inspired by wasps, noticing how they chewed wood to produce a material resembling paper for making their nests. Wood cellulose is the main raw material for making paper, but it can be replaced by other plant fibers. Wood cellulose can come from h... |
16 January 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Graphene may very well be the material of the future and is currently of high scientific interest due to its unusual electronic properties. The single planar sheet of carbon atoms - pencil tips are made of multiple graphene sheets - is now the base of a revolutionary new material that will find many practical applic... |
26 July 2007
05:50 GMT |
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One of the most interesting and recently used methods of counterfeiting US dollars is to bleach the ink off the $5 bills and to print them with as $100 bills. The Treasury has only recently considered redesigning those bills to prevent the sudden "multiplication" of Ben Franklin.A new technique has now been created ... |
19 July 2007
10:18 GMT |
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Digital paper, also known as interactive paper, is patterned paper used in conjunction with a digital pen to create handwritten digital documents. The printed dot pattern uniquely identifies the position coordinates on the paper. The digital pen uses this pattern to store the handwriting and upload it to a computer.... |
5 June 2007
04:27 GMT |
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Lookie here! A pen-notepad combo! Carry this and you'll always have with you a mini portable commonplace book or agenda. Forget the bulky notepads or other similar tools that help you record stuff. Inside this pen's cap you will find a notepad that's more (ahem) than 2 inches wide and more than 2 feet ... |
13 April 2007
11:11 GMT |
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Gmail, the freeware mail solution provided by Google, gets another amazing feature that allows you to print all your messages stored in your inbox. How is this possible? The company introduced a new function in the Gmail menu that enables you to select the messages that will be printed by the employees and delivered ... |
2 April 2007
04:44 GMT |
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