The Leveraged Freedom Chair. Image Credit: MIT Mobility Lab At today’s lecture “Facing New Challenges Through Design” as part of Barcelona Design Week , I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab , presented by Victor Grau Serrat from MIT in Boston. Grau gave an inspiring talk about how design and creativity can lift people out of poverty, mainly by co-designing and similar to
Continue reading …By Ruth Marcus As a wife, I understand where Ginni Thomas is coming from. As a reporter who covered every sordid minute of the Thomas-Hill hearings, I don’t. Related Entries October 20, 2010 The Thomas Clown Affair October 20, 2010 Is Clarence Thomas’ Wife Trying to Pick a Fight With Anita Hill?
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Well played, New Zealand. Hobbit-infested scenery, Flight of the Conchords, the first in the world to get iPhone 3Gs … and now this. What you’re looking at is purportedly the first person to purchase a Windows Phone 7 device, and even if that’s not quite the case, it signals the launch of the phone for the island country, which would make it the first region in the world to put the device on sale. Have patience, non-Kiwi friends. Update: After the break, a shot of a Vodafone NZ HTC Trophy, purchased at Aotea Square in Auckland. Thanks, Jonathan! [Thanks, Stephen] Continue reading Windows Phone 7 now on sale… in New Zealand Windows Phone 7 now on sale… in New Zealand originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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None other than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has jumped aboard the “It Gets Better” train, delivering a video pep talk to young Americans struggling with issues of sexuality and discrimination and urging them to look forward to a better future. Related Entries October 20, 2010 DOJ Moves to Block ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Injunction October 14, 2010 U.S. Exploring Talks with Taliban in Afghanistan
Continue reading …Canstruction: Fighting Hunger With Fantastic Food Can Sculptures (Photos)
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Photo: Canstruction It’s that time of year again when giant, whimsical sculptures — made entirely out of stacked canned food — will be built overnight by teams of designers competing in a fun (and occasionally harrowing) event that also doubles as one of the world’s biggest food drives with a creative — and communal — twist…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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DIY Robot Halloween Costume. Photo: Uriel 1998 / CC Enjoy the process of creative reuse and take your DIY Halloween costume to the next level by making it from materials you already own. From a larger than life Gordon Gekko-esque cell phone, circa 1987, to a roller coaster car with an extra pair of legs, we rounded up five wacky
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Police say a large chimpanzee smashed the window of a police car in Kansas City, Mo. Emergency crews eventually tranquilized “Suko” and brought her to a sanctuary. (Oct. 20)
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Amusingly enough, you know what’s missing from the new MacBook Air models? Adobe Flash Player. While preloaded on Apple’s past hardware, out of the box here it just says missing plugin, with no click to install option. To be fair, Flash doesn’t come standard on a lot of machines, even for Windows, but we wonder if past models will continue to ship out with Adobe’s plugin, especially once OS X 10.7 becomes de facto. It’s not like Adobe was feeling the love from Steve anyway, and you can still install Flash yourself — we did, and are happy to report the Air plays 720p video great. We were too bandwidth-challenged at the time to try 1080p for real, so we’ll have to let you know about that later. MacBook Air: all substance, no Flash originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We knew Windows Phone 7 was scheduled to land first internationally, but it’s always a treat to hear the particulars. Orange UK has just (re)revealed that it’ll be the exclusive carrier of HTC’s 7 Mozart across the pond, and it’ll be joined by Samsung’s Omnia 7 as both go on sale tomorrow morning in Orange’s Oxford Street shop — fittingly, at 7am local time. Naturally, the carrier is going to blow out the launch, with each customer buying a WP7 handset to receive a complimentary Bluetooth headset… while supplies last, anyway. You’ll also get a stockpile of Orange applications and services (like it or not), and we’re told that each phone will be offered for zilch with a fresh contract starting at
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