ETech09 - O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference CFP Released
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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 [...]

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Botanicalls Twitter is out!

Shout out to Botanicalls Research Crew!
Big shout out to Phil Torrone, Make Magazine and Limor Fried, Adafruit for her ethernet shield for arduino!
In a nutshell,
Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What’s up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates [...]

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Silenced objects (plants, occupied peoples, energy and monetary drain, etc) seem to have the least access to monetary reward for us humans - ie, they don’t necessarily always have a proscribed value in our economic ontology. And yet, often its these “undisclosed locations” which have the wildest/most powerful will/impact when fed back into the greater [...]

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Presenting The In(ter)ventions Festival at ITP
Here I am invoking Political Scientist Michelle Micheletti’s quote: “We Must Shop to Survive,” in a video of my ITP presentation of The In(ter)ventions Festival proposal, a festival designed to provoke critical inquiry on the part of consumers about the impact of their behavior. It’s about connecting mundane tasks [...]

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