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Afterlife by Auger-Loizeau

Auger-Loizeau's brilliant project Afterlife: There's life after death, in a battery. Speculative design at its best!

13.7 billion years before the Earth existed, the blue print and elemental makeup for this planet and all its contents were formed. The big bang is widely accepted as the event responsible for the creation of everything - The universe, its stars, it’s planets; it’s trees, animals, silicon, I-pods and humanity. Nothing, including the human body, exists that cannot be created from these basic building blocks. Under normal circumstances after death, the human body would be assimilated back into this natural system.

The Afterlife device intervenes during this process to harness the chemical potential and convert it into usable electrical energy via a microbial fuel cell - a device that uses an electrochemical reaction to generate electricity from organic matter. This electricity is contained within a familiar dry cell battery.
(Source: Auger-Loizeau)

Project website: auger-loizeau.com

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Garduino and Twitter

I always enjoy when projects emerge in which interaction, open source technology and social media is being used in resilient everyday design proposals and appliances. So, here's a great instructable about how to build a garden monitoring system using the open-source electronics prototyping platform Arduino and Twitter. Instructable user natantus had the brilliant idea to combine the "Tweet-a-Watt" power-metering project with the automated garden how-to "Garduino". In this step by step tutorial you'll learn how to build your own garden that you can monitor from work, university or with your smartphone via Twitter.

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Bruce Sterling on shaping things

In his speech at the Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign in Potsdam, Germany in Mai 2007 as well as in his 2005 book "shaping things" Bruce Sterling proposes a whole different perspective on "things". Traceable, searchable things for reduced cognitive load and less opportunity cost. More than two years later, these days when Google launched the all famous Navigator app for Android phones this becomes even more relevant.

I can also warmly suggest his blog beyond the beyond for wired.com

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