meet bruce

On some of the things, this designer-genius Bruce Mau, comes up with:

Among the various curiosities on display: a car that could be powered by human pedalling; the LifeStraw water filter, a small device that can be used, like a straw, to sip from polluted waters and drink cleanH2O; an old fuel engine rebuilt as a means of converting biomass into energy; self-healing plastic (whose cracks mend themselves); the low-cost laptop taken up by the One Laptop per Child initiative; the iBOT (Dean Kamen's "walking wheelchair"); the "bicycle ambulance" designed to bring emergency medical services to areas in sub-Saharan Africa not served by automobile; a regenerated nose, stored in a clear refrigerated case; and a replica of a featherless chicken, biodesigned for warmer climates...

We are moving toward global clarity - to people finally being to say, 'Oh, I get it. Now I see what's going on in the world.'" And what happens when everyone sees and understands and recognises the need for change? If you ask Mau, what happens next is - of course - design.

(as cheesy as this may sound) he wants to change the world...

and read his Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.

(via Wired)