PrintEco is a new plug-in that optimizes documents for printing so that they use the least amount of paper. How much can you save? Way more than you think.READ»
While still in the experimental stage, a new kind of battery can run off of discarded paper, producing electricity with only a little water as a by-product. Forget recycling, soon you'll power your home with yesterday's news.READ»
Responsible paper company Domtar is seeing its market evaporate. Instead of holding on to what paper used to be, it's finding new uses for pulped wood--everything from car parts to bone replacements.READ»
Reusable, recyclable, and using no electricity, a new heat-printed paper substitute may finally get rid of the thousands of tons of dead trees we continue to use every year, despite the fact that we have computers.READ»
The only thing better than a perfectly made paper airplane arcing through the air is that same airplane refusing to land because it's got an electric motor.
And all you need is Power Up, a kit that allows you to mount an electric ...READ»
Artist Matt Shlian is great at screwing up. A self-described papercraft engineer, Shlian designs stunning 3-D paper sculptures that fall somewhere between origami, pop-up books, and Minimal Art -- many of them happy accidents. ...READ»
We’re crazy about this installation by Japanese architect Ryuji Nakamura. Created for the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo earlier in the year, the thing is about twice the size of a pickup truck but infinitely more delicate; ...READ»
Author Jonathan Safran Foer has been called many things: literary wunderkind, conscientious vegetarian, pretentious dweeb. (OK, that last one was just me.) Now, with his latest book Tree of Codes, he may earn another label: book ...READ»
Amazon is selling more digital books than hardcover books. It makes one wonder if this is the beginning of the end of paper. While the sales of newspapers plummet and news magazines get thinner by the day, the eulogies for paper might still be premature.READ»
Didn't we say it was only a matter of time before someone gave away a car with an iPad? Wednesday saw the start of the New York International Auto Show, and Hyundai unveiled a very tasty little crudité to go with the 2011 version of ...READ»
Over the last three decades Jim Gaines has served as editor in chief of Time, Life and People magazines, as well as the corporate editor of Time, Inc. Today, August 11, is his sixty-second birthday--but unlike many of the print ...READ»
You may think the business card has a limited lifespan in this digital era, but one developer has found a way to prove that wrong, while simultaneously showing off his augmented reality programming. And it's mighty impressive.
This ...READ»
Speakers are often clunky and material-intensive, but the Flexpeaker from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan is about as sleek and simple as can be. The 8.5-inch-by-11-inch sheet is made from layered thin ...READ»
The first issue of mine magazine has been released, Time Inc.'s 10-issue experimental mash-up of its different magazines into a kind of printed RSS feed, and the results are not going to put Google Reader out of business anytime ...READ»
Paper goes in the paper recycling bin, plastic goes in the plastic recycling bin, trash goes in the trash bin, and electronic waste goes...on the street? Not for much longer, at least in New York City. As of next year, NYC will ...READ»
