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...under-served subculture. “I found it interesting and surprising that there weren’t any brands associated with the sport,” said Valsi, who played club lacrosse at the University of Maryland. “There’s a lot of branding built around surfing and skating. You know, niche sports?” Valsi saw a cultural dichotomy in lacrosse, and he said his main creative obstacle in the design process was negotiating that division. “Lacrosse started out as an Ivy League sport,” he said...
...excavations of ruined business plans led him to conclude that a wise organization vigorously questions its own clever ideas; dissent is encouraged, and skepticism is built in. As luck would have it, that's precisely the kind of operation the Founders created with their slow-moving clockwork of checks and balances. But in times like these - periods of crisis and one-party rule - skepticism and dissent can seem unpatriotic, and the flawed ideas of smart people can easily get out of hand...
...gushes about one of his favorite creations, a device that applies physics to allow his eye movements to maneuver his computer cursor. And that one, he built before college...
...built my dining room table,” she says proudly. “You walk into my house, and you see my table. Then there’s a mirror with the mosaic I made around it, and then you see my salad bowls and cutting boards...
...about the drawn-out process of arranging a precise time to meet at the computer to catch up on weeks of activity. I’m talking about the casual hello. The quickie. The in-and-out, sometimes lasting just seconds. Soon everyone will have a laptop with a built-in camera, meaning my Gchat bar will be full of video icons and no more of those outdated dots. And who doesn’t like to check themselves out? Let’s be real. You have the big box with your brother/lover/Thai pen pal/parole officer, but then...