East Africa Google Gadget Competition

Overview
As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to innovation and technology, we are pleased to announce the East Africa Google Gadget Competition 2008. Through this competition, we aim to reward and encourage students in East Africa to envision, design, and develop gadgets that can impact consumers globally.
If you’re a student in East Africa, the Google Gadget [...]

innovative Japanese fashion - dress vending machine

I love to see technology / related ideas mixed with ‘daily-life’…, not the kind that stands aloof from their users.
here is one of such:
To prevent crime, a fashion designer thought to transform clothes into inanimate objects to help people disguise and deceive, potential ‘muggers’ thieves.

source: gizmodo
I wonder if such ‘clothes’ could be classified as a [...]

Congo’s pygmies turn to technology

Through the use of Hand-held satellite tracking devices, Pygmies and commercial loggers have begun to work together in the Congo Basin Republic.

The Congo River (for a time known as Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after [...]