Room-temperature bricks made of bacteria and sand

*Holy cow, those things are off-the-wall.

http://www.dexigner.com/design_news/bricks-without-clay-or-carbon-next-generation-competition-winner.html

"The ordinary brick - you would think that there is nothing more basic than baking a block of clay in an oven," said Horace Havemeyer, Publisher of Metropolis. "Ginger Dosier's idea is the perfect example of how making a change in an almost unexamined part of our daily lives can have an enormous impact on the environment."

"There are over 1.3...