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Hot Water Turns This Food Parcel Into a Meal-Ready Bowl

Posted: 03 May 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Picking up a ready meal from the supermarket for lunch always comes with a little tinge of guilt when you realize just how much packaging there is to be discarded. An amazing new type of biodegradable packaging could ease a lot of that guilt and give you a rather fun show to watch while you wait for lunch to cook.

The packaging, made from 100% bio-based and biodegradable materials, starts out as a compact, closed dish. Presumably the dish would be filled with an instant meal that needs only hot water and a few minutes to cook. After removing a small strip of protective material that encircles the bowl, you pour hot water into a hole on top – and that is when the magic happens.

Over a few minutes’ time, the small package opens and blooms into a bowl. The hole you previously poured water through can now serve as a convenient way to carry your ramen noodles to the breakroom table. The conceptual packaging was developed by Swedish company Innventia and designers Anna Glansén and Hanna Billqvist.

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Split Wood Lamps Create Beautiful Fusion of Tech + Nature

Posted: 02 May 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Few man-made objects can compare to the intense beauty of nature, but at times humans can enhance nature’s loveliness. Paul Foeckler of Split Grain takes gorgeous pieces of California cypress trees and turns them into lamps and lights.

The fusion of nature and technology seems to enhance both. The intricate lines, knots, indentations and markings on the tree slices are illuminated ethereally by the light inside, almost as if some sort of life form had made a comfortable home in the tree.

The lamps are half sculpture and half furnishing, but Split Grain also creates pieces that are nothing but sculpture. The sculptures also use slices of California cypress trees supported by steel. He does not change the wood much; rather, he simply slices them and arranges those slices, leaving some of their natural form while transforming them into lovely modern minimalist sculptures.

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