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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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 ...
the war on heroism
In response to New York City’s ‘If you see something, say something‘ campaign for mass hysteria, Alyssa Wright has made hero reports, a site where you can say something ...
connecting flights
dopplr is a social network for keeping track of you and your friends’ trips - and making sure you see each other when you get a chance. saul griffith ...
collaborative conscience
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Clay Ward, founder of thoughtandmemory.org, an on-line resource for tracking supply chains and developing user-generated ratings of companies based on social and environmental performance. ...
barter for good
Inspired by the OLPC’s ‘Give one, Get one‘ campaign and Product (RED), brandnext’s THE STORE FOR TOMORROW is an exploration of how consumerism could be transformed into a meaningful ...
one accessory per child
The brilliant Mike Lee invented a viewfinder for the OLPC’s built-in digital camera (a perfect example of futurecraft) and has already made rapid prototypes - check them out ...
personal climate
Saul Griffith has made available his notes and slides for a powerpoint entitled ‘The Game Plan‘ detailing the necessary steps to be taken as individuals and society to reverse climate ...
material memory
in 2005 filmmaker bilge sehir presented a hoax thought experiment called ‘vases sonores‘ (sonorous vases) which hypothesized that the sounds occurring during the etching of ancient pottery were recorded by the ...
toy story
It’s a rainy first day of Spring here in Boston, a good time to watch Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior’s video on working conditions in the Hung Hing factory in ...
rent-a-purse
Ever wish you could always stay up-to-date with the latest trends in fashion? Bags to Riches will rent you the latest purse - for $30-$300 - for a month, along with ...
pod docks
how far have we come? ipods are supposed to be the best design of today, yet they’re more plain than a walkman was twenty years ago. just look at the ...
webs of influence
I’ve been interested in depictions of the evolution of ideas and cultural movements since posting about Timothy Stotz’s amazingly complex evolutionary diagram of 500 years of art. Here are some other ...
form ignores function
yesterday at takashimaya in shinjuku i bought two things: can you guess what they are? they are shiny, plastic and white. i think they are even better designed than apple products: they ...
visualizing influence
timothy stotz has made a stunning diagram called ‘the flowering staircase‘ to depict the chains of influence in european art from 1435 to 1935. the single image links (4 ...
edible utensils
we’ve seen edible cups, and now edible spoons made of bread by tim simpson. there’s something elegant about making everything that touches your mouth edible, and certainly it’s more sustainable ...