Pasta made and shipped flat also may reduce carbon emissions. This is an Inside Science story. Pasta is beloved for its diversity of shapes, from tubes of penne to spirals of fusilli. However, these ...
Parked at the curbside of a tree-lined street, Luvly O looks a lot like any other small car. Boxy but sleek, the modern-classic aesthetic of the cream-colored vehicle embodies Scandi minimalism. It ...
The way we move around cities is changing fast, pushed by a real push for greener, smoother, smarter travel. With more people packing into urban areas, old-school cars big, noisy, dirty are starting ...
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have taken inspiration from flat-packed furniture to reimagine the way pasta is created, developing a flat form of the food that morphs into conventional ...
Ikea built an empire out of a simple idea: furniture designed in such a way that it could be flat-packed to ease shipping costs and eliminate the need for a delivery truck. Today, that same innovation ...
The 21st Century will be about redefining the vehicle with the expansion of battery-electric cars and autonomous driving.
When it comes to food packaging, there’s no bigger scam than potato chip bags, right? People complain about the air (nitrogen, actually) inside, but it’s there for a reason — nitrogen pushes out ...
When you think of IKEA and food, you probably think meatballs. But now, thanks to researchers at Carnegie Mellon, you may also think pasta, as the team’s created “morphing” versions of the wheat-water ...
One of the major variable costs in producing a new vehicle is shipping them from the factory to the dealership or end user. The main part of a car, where the passengers go, is full of air during ...
Sometimes, you just have to see whether something can be done. Such is the case with [ToolTechGeek]’s flat-pack metal multi-tool build. Can an entire multi-tool be made with only flat pieces of ...
Destined to become the Ikea of truck building, Sir Torquil Norman's OX truck can be flat-packed, six packed into a container and built in under 12 hours by three people. The parts are interchangeable ...