After seeing the value in providing affordable tools that greatly empowered the reading disabled, social entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman was inspired to found a business that utilized technology to ser...
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We always say that doing good can be fun and nothing embodies that better than PlayPumps, which created a merry-go-round that's also a water filtering pump. Kids spin the pump, providing otherwis...
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In 2005 an MIT Professor named Nicholas Negroponte launched the grandiose and popular plan to bring technology to the developing world, One Laptop per Child. The program is dedicated to designing ...
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For those of you who haven't gotten to the Design for the other 90% exhibit yet at Cooper-Hewitt, it's still open through September 23rd.  And for those who might not have heard, the exhib...
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I received this email from my friend Eleanor who's been in Guatamala for the last 3 months. Her email is eleanorh [at] gmail.com. Read the letter and get in touch: Hi everyone, This past week...
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