Hasta La Ideas

Bet you would’ve loved these over the holidays. Much better than paper dishes and yet with the same convenience: No washing! That’s right, self-cleaning tableware.

The prototype is the work of the Swedish design studio Tomorrow Machine, where they apparently “look at science from a creative point of view.” And a useful one! The plate and cup are made of cellulose, and are coated with what they call a superhydrophobic coating, and it’s this coating that resists dirt and water.

The coating was originally developed by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. They took the inspiration from the waxy coating of the lotus leaf.

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