Recently, as a part of You Are Not Here, Mushon Zer-Aviv and I were invited to speak at Waag Society’s Locative Media Lab at Picnic 2008. While we were there, we had a great time working with the folks from the Waag on Madretsma, which…if you speak Dutch, you should check out Madretsma.

In Botanicalls news…our new Kits were featured in the November 2008 issue of Wired Magazine in an article on open source hardware by Clive Thompson.

Kits are now on sale at: Think Geek and Adafruit and other vendors coming very soon!

things i’m thinking about…

recycling urine,  “ISS gets new recycling gear that transforms human waste to drinking water. Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too. This way it will soon be possible to host more crew members.”

air purifying concrete

fiscal game

Locative Lab at Picnic08

predicting national grid problems:
“The Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system, announced this week, mashes together images and stats of everything from real-time status of the electric grid and weather information to power grid behavior modeling and simulation.”

Nerds At Night