In this movie Dezeen filmed at the Wearable Futures conference in December, designer and materials researcher Shamees Aden explains how “scientists are now mixing together groups of chemicals [to make] them behave like living cells. They are able to reconfigure, they are able to adapt to light, pressure and heat.”
Ades prposes using these cells, called protocells, to make self-regenerating soles for a pair of running shoes.
Read the full story: http://www.dezeen.com/2014/02/19/movie-shamees-aden-protocells-regenerating-trainers/
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