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What is Next Nature?

With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.

Grow-a-NanoRaptor

Grow-a-NanoRaptor

Now here is an example of the fusion between the made and the born, most kids would crave for. Much better than the robotic dino toy. Designed by evolution!

Hopefully this genetic surprise doesn’t grow genetically wild and eats its owner. Luckily it is just an imaginative product – so far.

nanoraptor2_530.jpgPhoto: Todd Tankersley; children: Susanna Bothe; raptor: Getty Images. Via Wired. Related: Epidermits – the tissue engineered toy, Dinosaur nuggets, Pleo – the resurrected robot dino, Mapping the DNA world.

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  1. Martijn van Mensvoort

    Koert, zal Jesse een leuk idee vinden … maar ja helaas, haha… zul je hem toch even moeten uitleggen dat het helemaal een onzin verhaal!