A New Ceramic Film Promises Electronics That Fold Like Paper
Bendable devices may still be a little way off, but a new kind of ceramic that is flexible in the same way as paper could certainly help speed things along.
A Unique View of a Potter's Wheel Shaping Clay
The footage is dizzying as hell but it’s also really enjoyable because you get to see pottery from a perspective that’s typically unseen, from the point of view of the potter’s wheel. The world is spinning into chaos but the clay is dead center and in focus and you can see it being shaped and transformed into a…
New 3D Printing Method Creates Ceramic Structures That Withstand 2,500°F
Ceramics are amazing materials—strong, light and with amazing thermal properties. Now, researchers have developed a new way to 3D print the materials more effectively than in the past, and the results can withstand temperatures of 2,500°F.
These Vases Are Actually Made From Liquified Smartphone Byproducts
It’s not something anyone likes to think about, but your smartphone—or your laptop, or the battery in your hybrid car—created a huge amount of toxic and radioactive waste. And now we know what happens to that waste in the long term. It returns to the earth, mingles with sludge, and finds its way into clay pots.
Watching this guy making lids for pots is so satisfying I get goosebumps
Casey thinks watching people making pots is soothing. It is true. I also think it is extremely satisfying. Watch master Hsin-Chuen Lin creating two different kind of lids for the same jar and you will see what I mean. It's such a pleasure I get goosebumps. At last, I understand Demi Moore.
New Ultralight Ceramic Cubes Can Be Squished and Recover Like a Sponge
A CalTech scientist and her team just announced the development of one of the strongest and lightest materials ever created. It's light enough to float like a feather, and so uniquely strong, it can be crushed and completely recover its shape. And—get this—it's made of ceramic.
Watching ceramics masters do their work is incredibly soothing
I wish there wasn't any music to this video. I wish it would just be the sounds of the pottery wheel spinning, the hands shaping the clay and the quiet focus of the ceramics masters resonating. But even with the music, watching masters of their craft actually perform their craft is an incredible sight to see.
These drawings are actually porcelain sculptures
Art that's unexpected always tickles me. Like these pieces from Katharine Morling. They look like black and white drawings from a comic book but they're actually ceramic sculptures made from clay and porcelain. Yep, these things aren't just sketches or made from paper, they're cheeky fun sculptures.
These Beautiful Jugs Are Designed to Look Like Your Heart
These jugs may look like a smart piece of modern design—because they are—but they're also modelled on the most important muscle of all: the beating heart in your chest.
Playful ceramic sculptures look like inflatable toy dinosaurs
Brett Kern's sculptures look like vinyl balloon dinosaurs at first glance, but they are actually ceramic, the ridges and appearance of inflated tension all deliberately put in.
These Sleek Salt and Pepper Shakers Have Only One Opening
Moloko's Vortex Salt and Pepper Shakers are beautifully minimalist—so minimalist, they have no plug and only one opening. To fill them, salt or pepper is poured into the top funnel, where it flows down into the inner chamber. Later, when you want to dispense some seasoning onto your food, turning the shaker upside…
The Sculptor, In the Conservatory, With the Baseball Bat
Some consider art to be the breathing of new life into ordinary materials. Sculptor Laurent Craste would beg to differ, turning each of these works into scenes of violent ceramic murder. The following is not for faint-of-heart urn lovers.
Those 100 Million Sunflower Seeds Are Being Removed From the Tate Modern
Remember that installation of 100 million meticulously hand-painted ceramic sunflower seeds that just opened a few days ago at the Tate Modern? It turns out they're giving off "noxious ceramic dust" and now they all have to be removed. Whoops.
Transformers Vases Are Pottery in Disguise
Could there be a brightly colored robot lurking beneath your great aunt's Ming vase? Part traditional Chinese vessel, part manga-inspired mecha, these colorful pieces of pottery are sure to liven up any mantle.
Self-Stirring Cup of Tea Puts My Left Hand Out of a Job
In GizmodoWorld, no one loves a cuppa quite like I do—although the amount of times I go to the kettle each day is giving me RSI. Anyways, two French guys have designed a cup of tea that stirs itself. Simple in its design, all you need do for it to work is channel your inner Cognac-drinker, swilling the liquid around…
Talking Floor Helps Your Diet, Calls You Lazy Fatso
Diet Floor is a "smart" talking ceramic floor that will talk to you whenever you spend too much time on top of it at the wrong times. In other words: you go to the kitchen in between meals, stop in front of the the refrigerator to see what you can nib on and it will shout something like "Watch out for those extra…
Ceramic Manga Cultural Smashups by Brendan Tang
Meet the Manga Ormolu: She's made entirely of ceramic and is a strange combination of futurist mecha-bot straight out of Appleseed, and an Ormolu vase straight out of eighteenth century France, where the Europeans amused themselves by collecting Chinese vases as exotic symbols of otherworldiness. (Today Ormolu copies…
Ceramic TV is more High Art than High Definition
This is Chinese artist Ma Jun's telly, which I've been test-driving at Gizmodo Towers. There was a remote, but it got smashed after my man and I had fisticuffs about what we were going to watch last night (he wanted The Bridges of Madison County, I wanted Seed of Chucky.) and he threw a wobbly and stormed out of the…
EEStor Ceramic Battery: Internal Combustion Replacement?
Seasoned scientists at EEStore say they've created a battery made of glass- and aluminum-coated ceramics that could allow electric motors to completely replace the internal combustion engine. The inventors, erstwhile Xerox PARC and IBMmers, boast about the car's efficiency, saying it'll be so cheap it'll be as if…
