Disposable

Scientists have used inkjet printing technology to create easily-replaceable cores for inexpensive organic lasers.

Someday soon, your milk carton may be able to tell you that the milk has spoiled. This could be made possible by a new technique developed at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, which allows disposable electronics to be printed on a variety of surfaces, using an existing T-shirt printer.

Responsible dog owners have a new option for cleaning poop up. The Poo Puck aims to make waste clean-up and disposal a quick, pain-free affair. A simple alternative to the plastic bag-mitt grab, it consists of a permanent base and disposable honeycomb cartridges.

The team at Signal Snowboards is always getting up to some crazy stuff on its Every Third Thursday show. Previously, we featured the crew's all glass snowboard, and now they are showing off a board made of 100 percent recycled cardboard.

Single-use, disposable UAVs with built-in avionics systems developed at the University of Queensland in Australia could soon be saving lives in bushfire season. One is basically a high-tech paper plane, while the other follows the form factor of a maple seed.

DARPA is seeking to create the means to provide on-demand satellite imagery for troops on the front lines.

The cardboard USB concept by Art Lebedev

German engineers have developed a low-cost disposable endoscopic camera that is the size of a coarse grain of salt.

This biodegradable tent design will decompose post-festival and replenish the soil in the process.

Researchers have created a degradable polymer from non-food crop sugars that they believe can be used for food packaging and be disposed of in domestic compost bins.

The all-in-one disposable BBQ in a box has become popular in Europe recently and is now available in the U.S. too. While we don't really like the idea of disposable anything, the EZ Grill is actually recyclable and can be stored safely until needed.