Mycelium is a billion year old biotechnology. It powers entire ecosystems, recycles the dead, and NASA thinks we can probably use it to grow houses on Mars. So we’ve used it to make the softest mycelium leather jacket ever made. But we think it may also be conscious. So maybe be extra nice to it.

Deep inside Germany’s Black Forest a giant chrome Vollebak logo rose into the air. 9,000 kilometres away, just outside White Sands Missile Base, another Vollebak logo exploded in the stratosphere. Meet the winners of the first V Prize.

From the guys who brought the world the 911, comes a partnership built for the future.

The world’s first Thermal Camouflage Jacket is a computer-programmable jacket that brings us one step closer to an invisibility cloak.

Designed with visionary architect Bjarke Ingels, Vollebak Island is the start of a series of extraordinary projects looking at how we’ll live over the next century in a world of climate change, space travel, and resource scarcity.

Vollebak Island is the proof of concept for Bjarke Ingels’ ‘Plan for the Planet’ – a step by step planning guide to a carbon neutral human civilisation on earth.

As the pioneers of ‘hedonistic sustainability,’ Bjarke and his team at Bjarke Ingels Group show how visionary design can answer some of the world’s biggest challenges whilst still being playful, simple, and even fun.

Built with interlocking joints and counter tension it can be assembled by a robot. And it’s carved out of hard anodized aluminium 6082T6 to survive life on the Martian surface – the same techniques NASA use to build the wheels on the Curiosity Rover. Now we just need to get it there.