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Posted May. 16, 2007,
Frisco Day Three
By Kim Hastreiter
I'm completely exhausted from running around yesterday, but it was a really fun day. I started the day off welcoming a few friends, Minda and John, who'd flown in from Minneapolis to join me in my crazy Frisco inspiration tour. We started out at the farmers market for breakfast, which consisted of ripe perfect peaches and homemade -- yes, homemade -- cottage cheese... I'm telling you, these food people are crazy here.
We then hopped over to the studio of the designer Yves Behar (he's the cute guy pictured at right), who gave us a fantastic tour of his company (called fusebox)'s headquarters. He is really a nice guy and I'd never really known all the stuff he has designed, but he showed us everything -- from his dildo designs in progress to his rubber shoes to his new chairs to watches to water bottles. But the most exciting thing we saw was the new super-inexpensive laptop design he created for the brilliant Nicholas Negroponte's "One Laptop per Child" project. I'd heard about this for quite a while, but to hold this $100 laptop in my hands (see photo at right), and see how cool it it and how amazingly it works (it's kind of like a mix between an iPod and a computer), was fabulous. (Read about the project here.) The deal with these laptops is that they are being sold in mass quantities to governments of countries in Africa and other nations where the kids live in villages with no electricity (or limited electricity) and have never even seen the Internet. Don't ask me how it works, but the computer itself actually creates wireless networks so all the kids can communicate with each other (with video and sound!) and can surf the net. It's AMAZING and is a huge success so far. 