The Materials Driving Product Innovation in 2010

What innovations might fuel the next wave of product innovation?

Behind every great movement in design, there's a material innovation. In the 1930's, tubular steel begat the Bauhaus; in the 1950's, steam-bent plywood begat Eames-era modernism; and today, capacitative sensors have begat iPhones and touchscreen interfaces. So what materials innovations are afoot now, and might influence the product designs we memorialize 25 years hence?

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