Friday, May 31, 2019

Korvaa is the worlds first headphones grown from bio-based materials

Move over plastic and aluminum—the headphones of the future may be built from fungus and biosynthetic spider silk. Helsinki-based multidisciplinary design studio Aivan recently unveiled Korvaa, the world’s first headset made exclusively from microbially grown materials. Created using Synbio (short for “synthetic biology”, an interdisciplinary branch of biology and engineering), Korvaa is the first physical implementation of the technology and marks a potential shift away from a fossil-based...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/korvaa-is-the-worlds-first-headphones-grown-from-bio-based-materials
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