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Robot/People art by Kacie Kinzer at ITP

In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.

via tweenbots | kacie kinzer.

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19 Apr 2009

tweenbots a human nature study

Author: Dan | Filed under: Giving Back, Technology and Gadgets
This is what it is all about, helping people live. Water, energy, and trash disposal and the world can get on with being a decent place to live for everyone!
clipped from www.watercone.com

The Watercone® is a solar powered water desalinator that takes salt or brackish water and generates freshwater. It is simple to use, lightweight and mobile. The technology is simple in design and use and is discribed by simple pictograms. With up to 1,7 liters a day the Watercone® is an ideal device to cover a childs daily need of freshwater. UNICEF: “every day 5000 children die as a result of diarrhea coused by drinking unsafe water”

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30 Jan 2009

Amazing, clean fresh water for everyone

Author: Dan | Filed under: Giving Back
Those Danes are at it again, this is what comes when you have 98% literacy rates!
clipped from i.gizmodo.com

You see, in Denmark, even exhibits about the history and translation of 1000-year-old runes can hope for digitally projected augmentation. This runic stone, when approached by a visitor, commences a story—harrowing, violent, dramatic, etcetera— spectacularly projected onto the stone’s textured surface. The effect is cool, but that’s not the end of it. As the story continues, the projection leaves the boundaries of the stone, and enters the area of the visitor, where it begs for their input.

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Might be a useful bit of information for you all!
clipped from www.wired.com
Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek

Time-management books command huge swaths of bookstore shelf space and sell tens of thousands of copies a year, but I always figured they applied more to stapler-stealing cubicle jockeys than someone like me. I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time. In a former life I was probably a whore. In this one, I am responsible for two cartoon voice-overs, three writing jobs, a movie soundtrack, my stand-up comedy act, TV hosting gigs, and half of a musical-comedy duo. Don’t get me wrong; in this economy, I’m grateful for the work. But without any kind of 9-to-5 structure, it’s a lot to keep track of.

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23 Dec 2008

How to get things done in business AND have a life

Author: Dan | Filed under: Giving Back