NANO Supermarket
The NANO Supermarket presents speculative nanotech products that may hit the shelves within the next ten years: medicinal candy, interactive wall paint, a wine which taste can be altered with microwaves, a twitter implant, invisible security spray and much more. Visit the shop, taste & test our products and experience the impact of nanotechnology on our everyday lives.
The debate–provoking nanotech products are submitted by designers, technologists and artists from around the world. They are selected by a jury of nanotech experts and design experts. Our products are both innovative and useful as well as uncanny and disturbing. They function as scenarios for potential nano futures, that help us decide what nano future we actually want.
NEXT TOUR LOCATION: 17 MAY 2012 – DEAF FESTIVAL – ROTTERDAM
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Call for Products
- Who:
- Artists, Technologists, and Designers
- What:
- Speculative products for the NANO Supermarket
- Win:
- A spot in the NANO Supermarket
- Inclusion in the publication
- The best proposal is awarded € 2500
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Contributors
- Nano Product Designers (current product line)
- Nicolas Nelson – Nano Sock
- Jonas Enqvist – Wall Smart
- Vanessa Harden & Tomasso Lanza – Skin Paper
- Matt Johnson, Roger Ashby, Isabel Lizardi, Rafat Malik, Bibi Nelson, Becky Pilditch – Bare Conductive
- Mike Thompson – Latro Algue
- Paul Frigout – Nano Detector
- Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, James King – Echromi The Scatalog
- Jan van der Asdonk – FluDoc
- Niko Vegt – DNA World
- Marco van Beers – The Necklace
- Hendrik-Jan Grievink – Twitter Implant
- Mensvoort, Grievink, Daas – Nano Wine
- Stephan Hoes – Epicur Pralines
- Tobie Kerridge, Nikki Stott and Ian Thompson – Biojewellery
- Susana Soares – NanoBioPlants
- Orestis Tsinalis, Ruben Daas – NanoLift
- Creative Director
- Koert van Mensvoort
- Production Leader
- Krista te Brake
- Art Direction
- Hendrik-Jan Grievink
- Product Model Masters
- Jan van der Asdonk
- David Menting
- Wiel Pijls
- Graphic Design Team
- Hendrik-Jan Grievink
- Ruben Daas
- Michael Kluver
- Video Commercial
- Studio Smack
- 3D Printing
- Chet Bangaru, D.Search-Lab
- Realization Nano Bus
- Bordbusters
- Jury Members 2012 Call
- To be announced
- Jury Members 2010 Call
- Ronald van Tienhoven (Chair) – Artist, Design Educator
- Bas Haring – Philosopher, Writer, Professor Leiden Universtity
- Bert Meijer – Distinguished University Professor in the Molecular Sciences, TU/e
- Dave Blank – Professor Inorganic Materials Science, TU Twente
- Karin Spaink – Writer, columnist, activist
- Lucien Hanssen – Academic Entrepreneur, Promoter of imagination in Science
- René Janssen – Professor in physical organic chemistry, TU/e
- Rinie van Est – Trend Catcher, Rathenau Institute
- Taco Stolk – Artist, Founder department of Genetic Design
- Organizers
- Next Nature Network
- TU/e Industrial Design
- TU/e Studium Generale
- Initiators
- Marco Rozendaal
- Koert van Mensvoort
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TV Commercial
The NANO Supermarket commercial shows some of our products in daily life.
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What is Nano Technology?
Nanotechnology is an emerging field of science that deals with the manipulation of structures on an atomic and molecular scale – the size of one billionth of a meter. Nanotechnology is often seen as a trend in material science, but has much deeper implications.
Nanotechnology, or more precise nanotechnologies, is an umbrella term for various techniques that scientists use to operate on the very small nanoscale, ranging from nanostructures, nanocoatings, nano-encapsulation, nanocircuits, nanosensors, nanoparticles, and more. Existing applications range from sunscreens, from mobile phones to airplanes to medicines.
Although many people are aware that nanotechnology is very small, there is only little discussion on how this emerging technology will change our everyday lives. Nanotechnology radically intervenes with our notion of what is natural. It may realize the dreams people have of themselves and significantly improve our lives, but may also have its downsides. Hence the urgency to have a public debate on the impact of nanotechnology on our lives.
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Supermarket Brochure
This Nano Supermarket Brochure is being distributed alongside the regular commercial folder material in the neighborhood.
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Product Examples
| Wallsmart – Interactive wallpaint
This paint gives you the freedom to change the colour of your walls with the push of a button. Just paint any surface once with the product and nano particles in the paint will give you the option to change colour just by choosing on from the accompanied computer program. If you get fed up with your choice just pick a different colour and the walls will change instantly into the desired hue.
Enabling technology: Magneto chromatic nanorods |
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| NanoSock – Self dressing sock
A lot of elderly people experience the loss of flexibility. In daily live this presents these people with a lot of practical problems. One of them, for instance, is bending over to pull up your socks while getting dressed. Many seniors now, have to rely on outside help to get them ready for the day. This is something that undermines their sense of independence and their overall dignity. The Nano Sock offers a solution to this problem. Through miniscule moving particles in the fabric, the sock pulls itself all the way up without any help. The energy to do this is generated entirely through the sock’s own movement that causes static electricity that powers the moving parts.
Enabling technology: Nano Electro-mechanical systems |
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| SelectaDNA security paint
Once something gets stolen it’s often hard to trace back the original owner. To make the lives of thieves as hard as possible a lot of ingenious ideas already made their way to the anti-theft market. From engraving serial numbers into bike frames to GPS trackers in cars. But how about grandfathers clock or your blu-ray-player? How can you easily mark them? With the Selecta DNA Kit you can invisibly mark all your possessions through a unique strand of synthetic DNA. Just swipe a little bit of the DNA onto your most beloved stuff so that there is always proof of the fact that the items belong to you.
Enabling Technology: Synthetic DNA |
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| NanoLift – Physical Photoshop
What would your life look like if you had the ability to change the shape of your face on a daily basis? Not just retouch parts through make-up but actually alter the physical form of your face. The Nano Lift is a product that could make this a reality. All it takes is one trip to the cosmetic surgery clinic, where they will inject a grid of tiny magnetic nano particles into your skin. From then on you can adjust these particles at home with the accompanied magnetic stick. The particles are connected with your skin, so adjusting the grid means physically changing your face.
Enabling Technology: Magnetic Nanoparticles |
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| Programmable Wine
Each course of a fancy diner should be accompanied with a soothing wine. But why buy each different type separately when you can get them all out of one bottle? Nano Wine is a basic grape product that is mixed with nano sized flavour capsules. When exposed to microwaves these capsules release their flavour. Different wattage and duration of exposure means you create a different type of wine. Just open the vanilla capsules when you are in an Australian mood. Truffle puts you in an Italian atmosphere and for a smooth Merlot won’t have to do anything.
Enabling Technology: Nano encapsulation |
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Call for Products
We call upon designers, technologists and artists to translate current nanotech trends into speculative, yet visionary products that stimulate debate on our nano tech future. We are seeking for well thought out and designed proposals that take technological, economical and political as well as societal trends in consideration: science faction rather than science fiction.
A selection of the entries will be presented in the Nano Supermarket and the accompanying publication. Entries are judged by an international jury of nanotech- and design experts upon originality, design quality, visual presentation, technological feasibility and the extend to which your design stimulates debate. The winning submission is awarded with a € 2500 price.
You can submit your product in two different categories: as a photoshop model or as a physical model. A selection of the best photoshop models will be displayed in the catalogue and on the website. A selection of the best physical models will also be displayed in the physical super market. Submission deadline is 31 May 2012.
Your submission consists of:
1. A short product pitch.
2. A description of the technological feasability of your product; which principles allow your product to function, how and when do you expect it to be produced?
3. A reflection on the socio-cultural implications of your product; what are the promises and fears of the underlying technology and how do you expect your product will change everyday life?
4. A photograph and a technical description of your physical model, OR a photoshop model (depending on which category you want to submit).
DOWNLOAD THE NANO SUPERMARKET SUBMISSION FORM
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Tour Schedule
Since its opening the Nano Supermarket received over 30.000 visitors in various cities and events. Below is an overview of the tour schedule. If you are interested in hosting the Nano Supermarket in your city or event, do contact us.
17-05-12 Deaf Festival, Rotterdam.
17-04-12 Salone Mobile, Milan.
30-03-12 TU Eindhoven
21-01-12 TU Eindhoven
11-11-11 Vila ArenA, Amsterdam
06-10-11 STW conference, Nieuwegein
14-09-11 Picnic Festival, Amsterdam
04-06-11 Night of Art & Science, Groningen
19-05-11 Cultuur op de Campus, Nijmegen
13-05-11 TEDxBrainport, Eindhoven
17-03-11 Evoluon, Eindhoven
09-03-11 Pamplona, Spain (Map)
02-02-11 Leidseplein, Amsterdam
27-01-11 Nemo, Amsterdam
23-10-10 Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
