PhoEf – Edible and Sustainable Solar Cells…. In Your Mouth
When I was at the Camp Pixelache event in Helsinki, Finland in May I learned about a unique project involving energy and food. On the Pixelache website, it had an article that talked about a past workshop called Temporary photoElectric Digestopians WorkLab which was aco-creation worklab with research based experimentations on the transformation of light energy into electric energy with [...]
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Bjorn Qorn: Popcorn Popped by the Sun
Bjorn Qorn is a new popcorn snack that is cooked not in a popcorn maker, but by a 5 meter basin structure that is built into the ground. The team behind the project is Jamie O’Shea, Ezer Lichtenstein and Bjorn Quenemoen who have been developing the cooking structure called the Caloris Basin, which can concentrate sunlight in an effective way [...]
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Thirsty? Need a drink from the “bubbler?”
When I was growing up, bottled water was not sold yet. In fact – my mom used to make our water bottles out of empty maple syrup containers. There are pictures of us at baseball games drinking out of our syrup bottles. The main place that we used to drink from at school and on the road was at the [...]
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Trueque Digital: Sharing Files in a Personal (and In-Person) Way
At Camp Pixelache, an event I attended last month in Helsinki, Finland, I met Luis F. Medina who is a new media professor/researcher and cultural producer and one of the founders of the project Trueque Digital (TD). Trueque Digital started in 2009 was founded by Medina, Fundacion Casa del Bosque, and Pio in the City of Bogotá, Colombia and it [...]
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MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone
I’ve been keeping my eye out for interesting projects on Kickstarter recently. I am going to be starting a campaign for my new project Food Font next month on Kickstarter – so I have been watching the sites for interesting projects, and watching successful projects. One great project that I backed this month is called MaKey Makey, which is a [...]
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