Makeshift
Continue reading from the blog of the first issue of Makeshift magazine:
These cases pose an important question: "In the rush to help after a crisis, public and private donors from around the world sometimes give without quite realizing what the needs on the ground are. Do Haitians really need your used yoga mat?
Posted: November 17th, 2011
at 3:19pm by mnp
Categories: myninjaplease,life,art,green,business,weaponry,design,et cetera,diy,development,health,internets,ninjas are everyehere,ethics,entrepreneurship,open source,jobs,innovation
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Mushroom Packaging
Dell announced recently that it’s going to be replacing those styrofoam packing blocks in its computer packaging with compostable, mushroom-based packing material. (Source)
Posted: November 15th, 2011
at 10:10am by mnp
Categories: computers,green,design,11th dan
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Omer Arbel
The making of a chandelier:
GigaOM RoadMap 2011
At the inaugural GigaOM RoadMap for 2011 conference it was a pleasure to hear influencers in the connected tech arena discuss the new standards that importantly are happening today and will be reaching mass audiences in the next 5-10 years. The value chain of creators and moderators is moving farther and farther away from mega companies (who are squandering to protect licensing rights) to small teams of personalized directional players in places like India. With advances in personalized human health care and easier to use industrial design, there is an increasing thirst for understanding how to humanize a super enthralled society from the waves of recommendations and gifting.
Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame, mentioned a Hakim Bey notion of temporary autonomous zones and how we are moving back to this facilitation. With a big problem being the creative itself, some see the cluttered world as place where a CBS can come out on top out of the muffle of the rising artisan movement. Om Malik noted that if you are in the media business, you might as well have something to sell… It seems as though we are moving from an ownership society to an access society, from a binary world, to somewhere in between. The uncanny valley was a topic of discussion as was the large amount of leverage that intellectual capital can have even for a small company without traditional merit.
Is the professional world going to trump the world of knitting? Is annotation of Second Life like book experiences going to shape future meta-data? The cloud is the mover here folks, and there is much to look forward to as we are still in early days…but will the canary begin to show some life?
Some ideas from the conference with, Om Malik, Mark Rolston, Richard Nash, Hosain Rahman, Matt Mullenweg, Frank Moss, Jack Dorsey- featured by myninjaplease.com:
Posted: November 11th, 2011
at 2:47pm by mnp
Categories: life,web,business,robots,design,science,et cetera,development,events,health,internets,entrepreneurship,open source,innovation,cloud
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Sonami MIDI
Posted: November 9th, 2011
at 8:40pm by mnp
Categories: computers,music,life,design,innovation
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A Björk Instrument
Posted: November 7th, 2011
at 10:47pm by mnp
Categories: music,too good to be true,design
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Dash Light
A nice LED light for your home or office, buy it here for $325.
Robotic Notification Smell Factory
This is pretty awesome, you can make these yourself or wait and buy an already assembled Olly- a robotic smell factory that alerts you with a smell when you get a tweet… and its running arduino, you can buy here.
Posted: November 5th, 2011
at 10:12pm by mnp
Categories: too good to be true,robots,design,fo' real?,diy,open source,#twitterisfothebirds,innovation
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