Brooklyn mushroom farmer Sree Krishna Pillarisetti revisits the throwaway camera with Soft-pixel, a digital camera whose enclosure is grown from mycelium and hemp, heat-pressed, and sealed in PHA bioplastic, with photos kept local rather than in the cloud. The translucent skin shows the fibrous fungal interior, and the project, which won Best Eco-Design at the 2026 European Product Design Awards, asks which part of a disposable camera should actually be disposable. Source: Yanko Design