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November 21, 2014 Rhett Jones

President Obama likes supporting innovators and creative Americans, so he decided he wanted to host a Maker Faire at the White House. The festival is a beloved event that brings together inventors and tinkerers from around the world. One of the most popular attractions at the fair has been Russell The Giraffe, an 18-foot tall interactive electric quadruped […]

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July 26, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

When it comes to living a human mark on nature, a proposed Burning Man project is taking things to a cosmic and literal new level. It’s called Genome Laser, and if creators Michael Raasch (AKA Skippy), Vincent Rebers and Alex Housley can raise $4,500 before the festival, it will project individual human genomes onto the […]

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July 17, 2013 Andy Cush

For the past three years, Burning Man has featured what it calls a Circle of Regional Effigies–that is, a set of wooden sculptures contributed from groups of artists around the world that, naturally, are eventually set on fire and burned to the ground. That pleasantly clean and minimal thing you see above is New York […]

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