{"id":15164,"date":"2019-05-26T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/these-microbe-grown-headphones-could-be-the-future-of-sustainable-electronics.html"},"modified":"2019-05-26T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T21:40:09","slug":"these-microbe-grown-headphones-could-be-the-future-of-sustainable-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/these-microbe-grown-headphones-could-be-the-future-of-sustainable-electronics.html","title":{"rendered":"These \u2018microbe-grown\u2019 headphones could be the future of sustainable electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The culture of planned obsolescence in electronics produces a huge amount of toxic waste unlikely to go anywhere but a landfill for the next millennium or so. Nature produces some of the strongest and most versatile substances we\u2019ve ever encountered, so why not use them instead? That\u2019s what Finnish design house Aivan has attempted<\/a> with this concept pair of headphones made from fungus, bioplastics, and other natural materials.<\/p>\n

The idea was to replace everything they could with naturally-derived materials, of which there\u2019s a great variety \u2014 but some can be a bit difficult to get your hands on.<\/p>\n

As Dezeen reports<\/a>, the Korvaa headset, everything you see here is natural in origin, although that doesn\u2019t mean they just picked it up in the forest.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The main structure of the headphones is 3D-printed, using a bioplastic created as a byproduct of yeast processing lactic acid. The polylactic acid polymer is strong but flexible enough to be used as the crown and cup shell.<\/p>\n

The padded earpieces are made from a protein known as hydrophobin that, like artificial foam, is made up of many tiny bubbles \u2014 but these are produced by a fungus and reinforced with plant cellulose. They\u2019re covered with mycelium, another fungus-derived material that\u2019s leathery and flexible.<\/p>\n

And on top of those would be a mesh created by spinning out synthetic spider silk \u2014 something Bolt Threads<\/a> is trying to do at scale for ordinary garments.<\/p>\n

To be clear, these headphones don\u2019t work \u2014 they\u2019re just a prototype or concept product right now. But the point wasn\u2019t to create a fully functioning replacement for your existing headphones. Rather the idea is to show that those headphones don\u2019t need to be made, as they are now, entirely of non-biodegradable materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was certainly only a surface scratch into where biology-engineered materials are going, and what we can do with them in the future,\u201d one of the group\u2019s designers, Thomas Tallqvist, told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

The headphones will be on display at a couple design shows in Finland \u2014 here\u2019s hoping someone from Audio Technica or Sennheiser drops by and gets inspired.<\/p>\n

Article source: https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/26\/these-microbe-grown-headphones-could-be-the-future-of-sustainable-electronics\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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