connor, matt and i are all here at siggraph on behalf of the medialab, the olpc and the creative synthesis collaborative.
Category Archives: conviviality
teaching tools
i have one new rule for design: things that teach are better than things that don’t. this jigger has a rotating handle that reveals directions for mixing common drinks via george nickolopoulos
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fearless learning
last week i needed to find out how to install an undermount sink, and i found a video at moen.com: today i heard about tufts medical center’s live webcasts of common surgeries: and i virtually assisted the inimitable don sadoway‘s introductory course on materials science (3.091) via mit’s open course ware: these videos are much […]
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smokeless stove
philips is field-testing a healthier and more efficient wood-burning stove for the developing world. it works by forcing air into the combustion chamber with an electric fan, making it burn hotter and a third more efficiently while producing less of the toxic smoke responsible for as many as 1.6 million deaths a year (one tenth […]
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sew local
the 100-mile suit is an attempt to build some of our simplest products – clothes – with only local resources. it was a 92% successful undertaking, with only the thread and soles of the shoes imported from elsewhere. it’s an impressively difficult task, if you think about it, and what is the point? well, the […]
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affection matters
holding the hand of a loved one immediately soothes you – one possible reason that married people live longer than singles. even more interesting, touching a stranger doesn’t have such an effect – and the study was blind. can you recognize your loved one’s hands by touch alone?
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