milk
Design
Accordian/Thermos Lovechild Keeps Your Milk Fresh Longer
12:20PM Rosa Golijan | Meet Fresh, the amazing Shrinking Milk Jug, who will keep your milk fresh for up to a week longer by eliminating the air void which makes it go bad in the first place. More »
Robots
Cows That Get Massaged With a Big Robo-Brush Are Happier, Make Better Milk
8:20AM Adam Frucci | If you watch just one video online today, let it be this strangely hypnotising video of cows getting super excited about a gigantic, robotic cow brush. More »
Science
Chinese City Bakes Bad Milk Into Bricks
1:55PM Elaine Chow | As you’ve probably heard by now, China’s been dealing with a massive tainted milk problem. Now that hundreds of tons of milk products have been recalled, precincts are scrambling to figure out what to do with the resulting trash. One city in Southern China has decided that one great way to get rid of all that melamine-laden fluid is to bake them into bricks and cement. More »
Design
Concept Jewellery Celebrates Birth With Plasticised Human Milk
9:54PM Gizmodo US Edition | Did you know that science has made it possible to turn milk into a plastic by solidifying the casein it contains? Well, you do now. But I bet you’d never think of using the technique to turn human breast milk into a “jewel” of sorts, and then use that to make a necklace. But that’s exactly what French design team Duende are suggesting. Titled “Perle de Lait” their jewelry range is part of a bigger upcoming art exhibit that celebrates birth and explores “sharing of food between mother and child.” It’s a pretty amazing idea, though I’m not sure I know many people who’d wear it. Also to be exhibited is a set of “placenta coffins.” Weird. There’s a detailed preview over at Dezeen if you’ve got the nerve. [Dezeen] More »
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Japanese Stress-Relieving Milk Costs a Stressful $30 per Bottle
12:48AM Adam Frucci | Are you really stressed out about money? I mean, you can’t help but spend it on frivolous things, despite the fact that you really need it for boring stuff like rent, groceries, and student loan payments. Well, here’s the worst solution possible for your problems: Japanese “Adult Milk” that is supposedly loaded up with the stress-relieving hormone melatonin. So what makes it such a bad choice for you? It’s $30 a bottle. No, that zero isn’t a typo. So while it might drug you into a sense of well-being, you’ll just be poorer and less able to pay your bills. The vicious milk cycle continues. [Yahoo via Akihabara News] More »
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