Leo is a artist, inventor and all around practical person in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. He has a background in sculpture, architecture and industrial design as well as an MS from the Media Lab spent working on the kitchen of the future. He is on a search for truth.
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homeless polluters
Despite the plethora of personal footprint calculators out there, I have always had the nagging feeling that personal choices make almost no difference on the environment - that the shift of ...
open source threads
We’ve seen do-it-yourself kits for wearable technology; now Studio 5050 has released the first open-source modular wearable technology collection, a series of hardware components that can be used to create ...
mesh and re-mesh
A the Lexus installation at the Salone del Mobile there was an interesting installation about generation of mesh structures which provided hints for their eventual re-generation and re-use. The chair above ...
local lamp
When is the last time you worried whether your furniture was locally produced? I saw this tag on a lamp at the Milan furniture fair, where the whole world comes to find ...
fibrous furnishings
Aside from the rare up-cycled or open design project at this past week’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, there were very few radically new concepts and a lot of ...
media wallet
Another find from Last week’s Designersblock: these wallets made from old cassettes split in half, gutted and joined with a zipper (by Marcella Foschi). She also authored these brilliant ...
creative commons kiosk
Last week at the Fuori Salone the most memorable event was designersblock: held at a dilapidated public pool in Milan’s Tortona neighborhood, it featured booths by designers and collectives ...
opportunity carbon cost
Another beautiful product (soon to be released) from KithKin’s “Some Rights Reserved” open-source design collection is Matthew Appleton’s “Afterlife” poster - it builds on the growing trend of product dissections for ...
light blocks
Yesterday at the Salone Satellite in Milano in the taro & sarah booth I was struck by this modular lamp: you can add polyhedral modules in any direction to change the shape ...
Clear Conscience
Philippe Starck is showing his concept for a transparent home-sized electricity-generating windmill at the Interni Green Energy Design exhibit at the Statale in Milano for the next two weeks. It ...
open books
The best part of the China China China! exhibit at Florence’s Strozzina is the reading room: unlike all the boring, walk-by-and-out-the-door reading rooms you see at every art exhibit in ...
animated paint
Flickr introduced high-quality video to its amazing array of social image sharing functionality - a new medium for the web (see the best videos here). To celebrate here is
recording elegance
HARUO OBA presented “special moments” today at CHI 2008 - two brilliant tangible recording interfaces mapped to physical phenomena. The BOOK RECORDER consists of two clips - one in the ...
tragic toys
Healthy Toys keeps track of the deadliest children’s products on the market - in terms of lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, bromine, and antimony (in parts per million). You can check out ...