The Nietz » Retro http://www.thenietz.com Sniffing out tech Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:16:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 flashback http://www.thenietz.com/2009/08/22/flashback/ http://www.thenietz.com/2009/08/22/flashback/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:26:22 +0000 Stephen http://www.thenietz.com/?p=61 thanks to smashing for reminding me about the wayback machine.  How sites looked in the late 90′s…microsoft.thumbnail

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]]> http://www.thenietz.com/2009/08/22/flashback/feed/ 0 Living root bridges: old-tech http://www.thenietz.com/2009/08/10/living-root-bridges-old-tech/ http://www.thenietz.com/2009/08/10/living-root-bridges-old-tech/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:45:35 +0000 Stephen http://www.thenietz.com/?p=45 rootBridgeThese are pretty cool.  I’ve always loved when trees are ‘trained’ to become chairs, or even houses, but this takes it to a new level of function, the tree roots are woven together to create a living bridge

The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily strong – strong enough that some of them can support the weight of fifty or more people at a time.

Some may be over 500 years old.

Source: [Living root bridges]

via: [Make], [neatorama]

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