Eben Bayer
- Lab Participant Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
- Fellow PopTech 2009
- Fellow 2009 Social Innovation Fellows
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This week in PopTech: Design scholarships, material engineering, and saving the American Dream
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
The School of Visual Arts recently announced a $20,000 scholarship for the Design for Social Innovation program provided by our friends at Ecovative Design, founded by 2009 Read more »
This week in PopTech: Bad science, DNA sequencing and the Toaster Project's Colbert Report debut
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
Fun with mushrooms: Eben Bayer and his alternative packaging material
Check out this great Motherboard TV episode about Ecovative Design founder and 2009 PopTech Fellow Eben Bayer on transforming low-value agricultural byproducts into strong biological composites that can be used as biodegradable alternatives to conventional plastics, foams, and packaging materials.
This week in PopTech: Concerts, community health and college
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
Live 4 Sendai, a live concert and fundraising event for Japan, boasted many familiar faces from the PopTech stage. The event was hosted by Ze Frank (PopTech 2004, 2005) and Read more »
This week in PopTech: Fellows Friday
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
Google for Africa’s Policy Manager, Ory Okolloh (Social Innovation Fellow 2009), has been named one of Fast Company’s most influential women in technology. Okolloh co-Read more »
Materials copying nature
Implanting electrodes in the brain can help treat neurological problems, but the hard plastic used to make them lessened the positive effects of the treatment. In 2008, scientists at Case Western Reserve University looked to sea cucumber skin for a solution.
In addition to sea cucumbers, worms and sharks, Discovery News’ “Top Ten Materials that Emulate …
This week in PopTech: Mushrooms, waves and plastic bottle sailboat adventures
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
Ecovative Design, founded by Social Innovation Fellow Eben Bayer, just launched its first consumer product, the MycoBowl, made out of 100% mushrooms and seed husks.
This Week in PopTech: Car Culture, Sex Ed and Mobile Microscopes
Happenings:
This week we were excited to release a talk by Jay Rogers on revolutionizing the automobile industry. In 2009 he talked to the PopTech audience about how he believes that making car production local – and personal – holds the key to fostering a sustainable car culture that also tackles our dependence on oil.
In addition to the video release, we caught up with …Read more »
Not Another Piece of Trash: Ecovative Design Partners with Steelcase
Editor’s note: Raquel is an intern at PopTech’s Camden office. She just returned from a semester in Cape Town, South Africa and will graduate in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double major in International Studies and Political Science.
Everyone knows that Styrofoam is a top environmental culprit – but few know how to live without it. Its …
This Week in PopTech: OK Go, Auditory Collages, Ultragreen Packaging
Happenings:
We are over the moon to announce OK Go as our first performers for PopTech 2010. OK Go just released their latest music video — we know this one’s going viral.
WATCH: End Love
We released videos from the Chicago Salon that present ideas about how networked mapping and the innovative application of multiple technologies can Read more »
Fellows Friday: What They're Up To This Week
Our PopTech Social Innovation Fellows are a very busy group—here’s some of their recent news (nominations are open for next year’s class, please help us find the 2010 PopTech Fellows by nominating now):
Emily Pilloton of Project H Design has been eating pie (recap) from PieLab in Alabama,
Flickr image from …
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Noted: Articles, Awards, and News for PopTech Speakers, Fellows
Here are just a few updates we are excited about in the PopTech community in the last few weeks—follow our Twitter account (@poptech), Facebook page, and Delicious bookmarking account for more.
For PopTechers in the New York area, there’s a PopTech NYC meetup organized by Alex Ivey next Thursday, November 19th at 7pm: details and …
Session Four: The Invisible Made Visible
Aviva Presser Aiden & Hugo Van Vuuren
2009 Poptech Fellows Aviva Presser Aiden and Hugo Van Vuuren are the creators of Lebone, a dirt-powered battery. The battery, which was created for the base of the pyramid population, uses microbial fuel cells to generate energy. The batteries can currently power an LED light, and the goal is to soon be able to also power …