Nano Supermarket @ TEDx
Last week our NANO Supermarket was presented at TEDxBrainport in Eindhoven. A good opportunity to show some of our speculative nano products and explain a bit of the why & how of our supermarket noir.
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.
Posts Tagged ‘Nano Supermarket’
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Nano World Map
The NanoWorld Map is an imaginative map of the emerging world of nanotechnology. It presents an overview of the state of the art of nanotechnology: its application domains, its enabling technologies and products.
When traveling through the landscape of the Nano World one comes across its opportunities, fears, risks and desires. Established applications are presented as cities, whereas speculative applications are rendered as villages.
Map out your route or travel along the given routes on the map. Imagine how the products on your journey will have impact on your life and the life of others. Would you use the products? How can this change your life and what will be the impact on your environment?
Launch the: Online Version of the Nano World Map.
The Nano World Map was designed by Niko Vegt, advised by Hendrik-Jan Grievink, Koert van Mensvoort and Bart Walhout in collaboration with the Rathenau Institute. Created for the Nano Supermarket. Sponsored by Nanopodium. -
Nano Supermarket visits Pamplona, Spain
From 9 – 14 March 2011 the Nano Supermarket opens its doors in Pampona, Spain.
The NANO Supermarket presents speculative nanotech products that may hit the shelves within the next ten years: medicinal candy, interactive wall paint, programmable wine, a twitter implant, invisible security spray. Come visit us to taste & test our products and experience the impact of nanotechnology on our everyday lives.
The visit to Pamplona is a co-production with the Foundation for the Research and Development of Nanotechnology in Navarra. The Nano bus will be on display at tree locations in the city: Balluarte (Wed, Thu), Campus Arrosdia (Friday) and Plaza del Castillo (Sat, Sun).
Event website: www.nextnature.net/nano-supermarket
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Clothes from a Can
Frequent readers of this website might be familiar with our claim that Next Nature emerges from a fusion between the Born and the Made. But now we can add another: the fusion of the Sewn and the Grown. Cheesy wordplay or not, fact is that this Spray-on Fabric changes your perception of what clothing is or should be. It becomes more grown, and less made.
The product – an instant, sprayable, non-woven fabric – was created some years ago by Fabrican and developed through a collaboration between Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, London (UK). After spraying the liquid, the fabric kind of grows itself. A model that tested the fabric on her skin reportedly said it ‘felt like a second skin’.
You can probably imagine the implications of this product, except it’s aesthetic appeal to hip designers all over the world: from First Aid Clothing Spray for emergency situations like floods and earthquakes to Sex toys to Auto-dressing Cabins for the elderly and the disabled. Clothing will be something you buy from a supermarket shelf and when you travel, you only need to breng some extra cans. But most importantly: you will never have to wash your clothes again – the ultimate disposable material in a throwaway society? Well, the self-sprayed clothing can be recycled by tearing it to pieces and mix it with a substance that makes the fabric liquid again.
Spiderman, eat your heart out.
Movieclip about the Spray-on T-Shirt
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Nano Product: The Food Printer
Are we creating the penicillin or the asbestos of the 21st century? In the months preceding our Nano Supermarket Project, we share some speculative nanotech products with you. Here’s another one in the Nano Supermarket Products series: The Food Printer. And don’t forget to send in your own project for the Nano Supermarket!
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Nano Product: The Twitter Implant
Are we creating the penicillin or the asbestos of the 21st century? In the months preceding our Nano Supermarket Project, Next Nature shares some speculative nanotech products with you. Here’s the second in the Nano Supermarket Products series: the Twitter Implant – sharing your whole life was never easier…
