One of the cooler little innovations I stumbled onto last week, a creation of the interactive group POKE.
BakerTweet from POKE on Vimeo.
No laptop or cell phone required — just twist the knob on the device until the baked good you’re taking out displays on the screen, then hit the button to send out a tweet [...]
This has gotten a good bit of coverage — which is the point. In his talk at the TED conference this week, about his efforts to eradicate malaria in the developing world, Gates releases some (non-malarial, I suppose?) mosquitoes while onstage, saying, “There’s no reason only poor people should experience this.”
Because of its size alone, [...]