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The Keyano repurposes a keyboard into a musical instrument.

We buy them, we love them, we use them, and then we toss them. Our gadgets are ever present until they’re not, and while it would be nice if we could just drop them into a black hole, our gadgets end up somewhere, and that’s often in landfills around the world. Bigger gadgets like ecoATM help you take your smaller gadgets and earn money for recycling them.

But what about all that waste already out there? What can be done? That’s the challenge taken up by designer and technologist Dhairya Dand, who came across a striking image while backpacking in Cambodia.

“I was around suburban Phnom Penh and came across enormous land fills stretching miles and miles,” he told me in an email interview. “These were piled with eWaste dumped from the developed world. What was more appalling, was that kids who should be in school were working here in the landfills. Most families had migrated from villages leaving behind agriculture to these landfills for a rich pay of a dollar a day.”

Dand launched ThinkerToys, an initiative to solve these dual problems–massive amounts of electronic waste in landfills in the developing world, and a lack of educational resources for children in those countries. Thinker Toys picks up basic electronic equipment, like keyboards, mice and speakers, none of which need to be modified or brought back to factories. For now, Dand has been using Arduino but he plans to develop low-cost chips, called openTOYS, that make the project more scalable and accessible.

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Maybe you’d like your child to show an interest in art, but you also want him or her running around outside, getting the fresh air and exercise that kids need. How do you combine these two things?

Washington-based Scott Baumann, who founded the product design firm Procreate Brands, has created a potential answer in the Chalktrail device. A wishbone-shaped arm connects to the back of any bicycle or scooter (with no need for tools) and supports a giant piece of colored chalk that drags on the pavement behind the rear wheel. This allows your child to “draw” on the pavement as they cycle, albeit with one color at a time.

A second, perhaps unintended potential use of the Chalktrail: Think of it like low-tech GPS—with the chalk attached, it should make it easy to go outside and see just where your tow-headed tyke rode off too. Unless they get hip to shaking tails and ride over grass to lose you.

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Non ho mai visto la serie tv Breaking Bad o Mad Men, ma questi paper toy spaccano. Disegnati da Andrés Martínez Ricci.
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Le créatif Joe Black a récemment pensé cette oeuvre splendide composée de 5 500 soldats en plastique à la verticale. Représentant le portrait d’un soldat chinois photographié par Robert Capa, cette création a été présentée au Moniker Art Fair à Londres.

Previously on Fubiz

• New Works by Li Wei
• Liu Bolin – Graffiti Mural
• Toys Soldiers

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