West African Inventor Makes 3D Printer from E-Waste, Inhabitat “Kodjo Afate Gnikou, a resourceful inventor from Togo in West Africa, has made a $100 3D printer which he constructed from parts he scrounged from broken scanners, computers, printers and other e-waste. The fully functional DIY printer cost a fraction of those currently on the market, and saves environmentally damaging waste from reaching landfill sites. … Gnikou is part of WoeLab, […]

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves, MIT “With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages–simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens. … Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would […]

NASA, ESA confirm hacks; The Unknowns says systems patched, ZDNet “For the NASA hack, the group also decided to leak one of the research center’s databases. They released names, employers, home addresses, and e-mail addresses of 736 victims on Pastebin. ESA is the other organization for which they also leaked more data, also via Pastebin. Both NASA and ESA have now confirmed the attacks. NASA security officials detected an intrusion […]