Régine Debatty’s “We Make Money Not Art”:http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com is, without a doubt, my favourite blog. It’s a consistent source of facinating technology and really innovative ideas.

Today’s source of facination is “Organic concrete”:http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/006998.php:

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Applied as a surface, organic concrete makes it possible to obtain permeable living surfaces, offering a natural component for public urban spaces.

But wait, there’s more! And this is a “personal favorite”:http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/004088.php of mine…

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“Chronos Chromos Concrete”:http://www.innovation.rca.ac.uk/archive/pr_sing.php?i=0, a project by Chris Glaister, Afshin Mehin and Tomas Rosen at the RCA Innovation Unit (London), uses heating elements and ink to allow graphics, words and numbers to be displayed within concrete.

And then there’s “this too”:http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003654.php:

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A wall made of LitraCon has the strength of traditional concrete but thanks to an embedded array of optical glass fibers, view of the outside world, such as the silhouette of trees, houses and passersby, are transmitted inside the building.

These are the kind of technologies I find really exciting. They physicaly, reshape the world around us. You don’t have to be a geek to appreciate this kind of innovation.

I say the Chronos Chromos Concrete is my personal favorite because it paves the way for a marriage of the physical and digital worlds and we can only imagine what that will give birth to.