Entrepreneurs Find Gold in Gadget Startups | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/03/changing-econom.html

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Goals on the mind:

1. 1-year time line to living and working in Europe.
2. Online pre-med courses.
3. Build a universal remote for a HTPC system out of my dust-gathering Nokia iTablet 770.
4. Build an HTPC including a Nintendo ROM to play old games on. Control through a wireless XBOX 360 controller.
5. Get a used piano off of Craigslist free section.
6. Build a rep-rap machine and along with the dremmel attachment, include a sewing head to create custom designs on fabric.
7. Read Bill Gates' 2009 Annual Letter.
8. Start building my future with a Roth IRA or investments.
9. Look into Doctors Without Boarders.
10. Brainstorm the possibilities of shipping containers.
11. Keep a running library of stand-up material and build a sketch for an amateur comedy night. Either at a comedy club or in front of friends in a living room.
12. Pick a goal and achieve it.
13. Start a savings account funding traveling the world.
14. Make flower boxes and start growing food on the roof. Requires a saw and drill.
15. Look into coaching basketball in Hoboken or Jersey City.
16. Start volunteering at Hoboken Hospital.
    

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Overwelming a Saturday Night

After a quiet Saturday night (well deserved and missing lately), its has been brought to my attention that the world is still at ones finger tips, waiting, almost beckoning, to be invented, created, transformed, re-made, re-designed, and redefined. This continual exponential expansion is beautiful.

A night of my browsing usually encompasses two sites: Make: Blog and Lifehacker. I can get lost so fast within their links (and links from those links), yielding 10+ tabs open at once stemming to a wider-open borderless field of interest.

I love the creative do-it-yourself stuff. It can be anything. Home building, computers, gardening, knitting, green energy/building, videogame developing, programming, t-shirt printing, etc. Anything stemming to and from that creative human element floats my boat.

Its almost overwelming (as brought to attention tonight). It is overwelming due to the limitless amount of amazing things that lacks time and money to invest and experiment with.

Even Jay Leno is seeing it. A post taken from the Make: Blog references a recent Jay Leno's Garage episode where he takes to a couple of guys who can scan a 3D object and turn it into a 3D digital image. With that imagine, the part can then be duplicated. Rutgers had a 3D printer of some sorts like the one in the episode. But is so overwelming! To think, for under $5k you can have a production facility in your garage thats limited to only the dreams and imagination flying around between your ears.

And now theres gonna be a $100 computer as big as a smoke detector?!? Limitless applications that can be used for. And you need free help with that? Google's got you covered.

How does a world grasp that!? As quoted from another real smart guy, "Almost nothing has been invented yet."

Or Mr. Einstein, "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

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Fwd: New Jersey - Recycled-Container Chic - NYTimes.com

So you've all driven through Newark on the Turnpike or 78. You've all looked out your locked car windows at the piles of trash, smoke stacks, car lots, power plants, Bon Jovi's, fat sandwiches, and anything else that apparently give the rest of the country the only picture of the great state of New Jersey. inside this dirty exisits the building blocks of a promising and innovative way of building buildings.

As told by Pops, who somehow knows a lot about a lot, there is a great surplus of shipping containers in Jersey straight up chilling. A great amount of products that come into the NY/NJ ports are carried in standard shipping containers. The shipping crates are not shipped back to Asia because it's cheaper to just make new ones.

The title of this post is from a NY Times article about how some dudes want to build an apartment omplex in Harrison, NJ out of the surplus of containers.

This theory has been around for a while, not just for apartment complexes, but for shelters for third world countries. Think about it. You're in a third world country picking rice or oranges or making some Air Jordans in a factory all day. You get out after a 12-hour day and get home to your house made out of plastic siding, cardboard, and anything else you can gather. And your house sits within a lovely neighborhood of other plastic siding houses. You're so money. Oh wait, no you're not, you're far from it. You're not asking for much, obviously gwtting by with nothing already. You just a want roof over your head, a locked door you can hide behind, and maybe some electricity and a hot shower every so often. You just need a shipping crate from Newark.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/realestate/01njzo.html

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How to stomp out our carbon footprint

Found this article from New Yorker magazine recently. The article was written back in February, titled BIG FOOT. It talks of our carbon pollution and how the problem can be solved using a market system, regulations, and technology. Very well written.

Here's a little taste:

“I got a call from a scientist a while ago”—Isaac Berzin, a researcher at M.I.T. “He said, ‘Richard, I have a process where I can put an algae farm next to a power plant. I throw some algae in and it becomes a super photosynthesis machine and sucks the carbon dioxide out of the air like a sponge. Then I gather the algae, dry it out, and use it as renewable energy.” Berzin asked Sandor whether, if he was able to take fifty million tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in this way, he could make a hundred million dollars.

“I said, ‘Sure,’ ” Sandor recalled, laughing. “Two dollars a ton, why not? So he sends me a term paper. Not a prospectus, even.” Sandor was skeptical, but it didn’t take Berzin long to raise twenty million dollars from investors, and he is now working with the Arizona Public Service utility to turn the algae into fuel. Sandor shook his head. “This is at two dollars a ton,” he said. “The lesson is important: price stimulates inventive activity. Even if you think the price is too low or ridiculous. Carbon has to be rationed, like water and clean air. But I absolutely promise that if you design a law and a trading scheme properly you are going to find everyone from professors at M.I.T. to the guys in Silicon Valley coming out of the woodwork. That is what we need, and we need it now.”

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april 24th, 2008 editiorial by roger cohen: bring on the right biofuels

Room cleaning leads to dusty magazine

i found a new york times magazine issue i had been hoarding for a year this afternoon while cleaning crap out of my room. the architecture issue is all about green issues and is packed with interesting articles regarding green topics. i figured i should record all the articles and toss the magazine so it can be easily found online. below are the green related articles. as always... ENJOYYYYYYY

ny times magazine: the architecture issue
ECO-TECTURE, may 20, 2007

1 why are they greener than we are
2 accidental environmentalist
3 road to curitiba
4 an eco-house for the future
5 native builder
6 zero-energy solution

pg 23 this old, organic house
pg 26 Calling Mr. Green
pg 28 Back in the Day
pg 30 No Edit
pg 32 The Worm Turns
pg 39 Hollywood and Green
pg 42 Al Gore Has Big Plans

inventing

Found a cool inventing article in the New Yorker magazine. Enjoy.