TED2010 happened last week here at Long Beach. TED started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. The range of topics and speakers, which include Bill Gates and James Cameron, have become even broader, yet the community have managed to keep it’s two purposes: To seek a deeper understanding of the world, and hope to turn that understanding into a better future for us all.
One thing that caught my eye was the topic of using lasers to control mosquito populations.
These lasers have the ability to track and kill mosquitoes and were made with parts found on eBay. Current methods of eradicating malaria aren’t working well in Third World countries, and so Intellectual Ventures Laboratory have devised this solution. They are currently examining it’s cost effectiveness to deploy in places like Africa.
This solution seems to be working better than my current one:
I saw these guys in the alley outside the office having a good time skating so I decided to hook them up with some FIVE THIRTY tee’s and stickers, they seemed pretty stoked because they immediately put the shirts on… they even let me take a few pics for our blog. BTW we still have a few of these OBEYx530 collab shirts left — you can pick one up in our online store.
Last year we decided that instead of buying a bunch of small gifts for everyone at 530medialab we would just buy one awesome gift that we could all use, you might remember last years Lego Death Star, this year we decided on a Flip HD video camera. Hopefully we can start catching all the Long Beach craziness in full HD video… should make for some great blog posts.
Brandon and Lerche from Triumvir drove up from the OC to the LB this past Thursday morning to discuss a new project we are helping out with… stay tuned for this one. If you haven’t already, check out the new Triumvir Winter 09′ “Hell is for Heroes” collection in their online store at Triumvir.com, but don’t buy all the denim… I still need to place my order.
Guess who’s ready for Halloween and is also very angry with me, 530’s very own Stitch. So much for taking the 530 uniform into consideration, I think it brings the color out in her eyes.
18 hrs and still going.... light at the end of the tunnel http://bit.ly/9jg7cb » 8 hours ago
Awesome, night shift. Heading back to the office for story board revisions. I sometimes regret getting "work now,sleep later" on my wrists. » 12 hours ago
Technology. A blessing and a curse normally within about 3 seconds of each other. >BR » 22 hours ago
I'm at 530medialab (115 w 4th St., Pine Ave., Long Beach). http://4sq.com/cpWo8e » 22 hours ago
