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...CAMPAIGN www.one.org You've heard Bono. You've seen the white plastic bracelets. This coalition of faith-based, medical and advocacy groups is trying to rally Americans to demand that an additional 1% of the U.S. federal budget go toward fighting global poverty and AIDS...
Maggie Orth is tired of high-tech gadgets encased in hard, shiny plastic. Instead, she weaves metals into soft fabrics to create everything from a jacket that plays music to a cocktail dress that lights up like a firefly. "Injection-molded plastic is not my cup of tea," says Orth, whose Seattle firm International Fashion Machines just released a line of fuzzy light switches--small cloth pompons that turn on or off with a squeeze, thanks to conductive fibers woven into them...
...year later, in 2003, the idea transformed into the foundation of a company he started called SensiTile, which is based in Detroit. In essence, SensiTile is a concept that gives concrete and plastic tiles a way to become interactive with touch, movement, light and shadow, which in turn dictate changes in the tile's color. "I have a little bit of trouble explaining it," says Lath, 31, who is originally from India but came to the U.S. to study electrical engineering at Arizona State University in 1993. "It's a very direct and intuitive phenomenon that has to be experienced...
Luckily for him, the quality and properties of his pet project speak for themselves. What Lath and his team of engineers and architects do is alter the composition of concrete and plastic. To create the Scintilla tiles, hundreds of light-conducting channels are carved into a transparent block of clear or pigmented polymer. These channels act like fiber-optic filaments, giving the material the ability to magically shift, shimmer and ripple in response to movement and changes in light intensity. As a result, the tiles react to shadows and moving lights and accordingly disperse them on the tiles' surface...
...said the first bomb was driven by scooter or rickshaw into Paharganj, a run-down food-and-clothes bazaar containing a handful of backpacker hostels. The second was planted in the Sarojini Nagar market, a ramshackle collection of open-air stalls crammed with knock-off designer wear and cheap plastic knick-knacks. Both areas were favorites of lower-middle-class Indians. And when the devices were detonated, between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m., both places were packed with families of all faiths buying gifts, fireworks and fairy lights on the last shopping day before the Hindu festival of Diwali...