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RoboWrap ready to revolutionize silverware wrapping

Working at a restaurant requires doing many repetitious tasks, but perhaps the most tedious and lamented (aside from bathroom cleanup) is wrapping silverware in a napkin.

To solve that age-old annoyance of having to bundle countless utensils, the Capstone Design class at Georgia Tech created an autonomous silverware wrapper capable of perfectly packaging silverware at a respectable speed. … Read more

Let your utensils biodegrade

Disposable spoons and forks seem to be a fact of life: whether packing a lunch or picking up take out, they're everywhere. We all know that they aren't particularly good for the environment, but they are useful. World Centric has developed an alternative that is far more sustainable. The Biocompostable Utensils are made from corn starch and polylactic acid (another corn derivative.) When you're done using them, they can be composted. They do require higher heat than most home composting systems offer, but can be composted in a commercial composting facility. The corn starch utensils are safe … Read more

Sunny-side-up spoons

I may have spent too much time trying to balance dishes and cutlery in the sink, but the Sunny Side Up Cutlery caught my eye. Each piece of tableware in this set has a solid base, allowing it to stand up without any odd balancing act. These forks, knives and spoons come in a variety of shades of green: they're a unique forest of cutlery reaching for the sun, just like any other plants.

The Sunny Side Up Cutlery line is a recent project from d-Vision, which fosters industrial design ideas with the support of the Keter Group (which … Read more