Ethonomics

The Mataerial printer squirts quick-drying polymers from a nozzle, like it was frosting a cake, creating a new model for 3-D printing that doesn’t require layers and supports to make a new object.

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The app mWater provides low-cost water tests to people in the developing world and then crowdsources their results, creating definitive maps of where water is safe to drink.

What if instead of charging your electric car, you just popped a new, fully charged battery under the hood. It’s an idea that’s been tried--and failed--but Tesla is hinting they want to bring it back.

From pop-up clinics to diagnostic rats, people are finding ways to bring modern health care to the developing world.

Greek yogurt is healthy and good, but the process of making it creates something called acid whey. Acid whey is very bad: accidental spills of it have killed thousands of fish. But Greek yogurt is booming, so what to do with its dangerous byproduct?

It feels so good when it hits your lips, but the rest of your body isn’t so happy.

Using piezoelectricity, this concept skyscraper wouldn’t need to be attached to the city’s grid. It would get all its power from the wind passing through its hairy exterior.

What if our instruments of violence were actually made of something a little more friendly? Harm-Less is a project that reimagines firearms as parts of the natural world.