Slob city
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Hooray, now thousands of people know I don’t properly clean my bathtub!

Many thanks to everyone who came by. It felt weird looking at my naked back on the front page of Explore. But, you know, in that good way.

And yeah, maybe after I clean the bathroom, I should clean my computer desk…

Opening Acer TravelMate 371TCi
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Under the plate, no cmos battery :(

The "stereo?" is because this laptop has ONE ‘stereo’ speaker.

The "gfx?" stands for the gfx core, I suppose, because it was too tiny to read.

Aquastar Flow Through in use_2061
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"AquaStar was designed to be sold to a high-end market to fund a lower-cost application in the developing world. The more expensive AquaStar Plus! is used in the harshest environments by travelers, military personnel, and rescue workers. Unsafe water is placed in the bottle and exposed to UV-C light, which damages the DNA and RNA in the pathogens, rendering them non-infective. AquaStar Flow Through treats water in larger batches. A small water-purification service can generate income while helping out the community."
other90.cooperhewitt.org/design/aquastar-plus-and-flow-th…

"Design for the Other 90%
February 17 – May 29, 2009
Of the world’s 6.5 billion people, 90 percent have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted. In fact, nearly half do not have reliable access to food, clean water, healthcare, education, affordable transportation, or shelter. The exhibition Design for the Other 90% features more than 30 projects that reflect a growing movement among designers, engineers, and social entrepreneurs to create low-cost solutions for everyday problems. Through local and global partnerships, individuals and organizations are finding unique ways to address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor.

Design for the Other 90% showcases designs that incorporate new and traditional materials, and abandoned and emerging technologies to solve myriad problems—from cleaner-burning sugarcane charcoal to a solar-rechargeable battery for a hearing aid, from a portable water-purification straw to a low-cost laptop. By understanding the available resources and tools as well as the lives and needs of their potential users, these designers create simple, pragmatic objects and ingenious, adaptive systems that can help transform lives and communities.

FIND OUT MORE
Watch a video blog.cooperhewitt.org/2007/05/14/in-their-own-words about the exhibition and discuss the designs in the exhibition.

Visit the exhibition web site other90.cooperhewitt.org/ to learn more about the designs on view."


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