This Week in PopTech: Car Culture, Sex Ed and Mobile Microscopes
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Friday, July 09, 2010 UTC
Happenings:
- This week we were excited to release a talk by Jay Rogers on revolutionizing the automobile industry. In 2009 he talked to the PopTech audience about how he believes that making car production local – and personal – holds the key to fostering a sustainable car culture that also tackles our dependence on oil.
- In addition to the video release, we caught up with Jay to find out more about designing cars geographically, but also psycho-geographically. He explained how this design local philosophy has sparked unexpected breakthroughs.
- In PopTech speaker news, we’re excited to find out that 2009 Speaker Aydogan Ozcan’s cellphone microscope built to detect infectious diseases is currently in field trials.
- The sex ed entrepreneur who trades bananas for broadband is none other than 2009 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Deb Levine.
- PopTech intern Raquel Brown caught up with 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Eben Bayer about Ecovative Design’s recent partnership with Steelcase.
- This week 2008 speaker Clay Shirky explains in an interview about his new book why he believes that “No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”
- Elle Magazine is auctioning off a variety of chic, sustainable bags that can not only charge your phone, but also benefit the Portable Light Project, an initiative of the PopTech Accelerator.
- Failure quote of the week: “So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might have never found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.” – J.K Rowling
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