Designers Craft Collars to Tame Lions, Costs. We often think of design and hardware and software programming as a human endeavor. But the latest project for designers Benedetta Piantella and Justin Downs took them deep inside lions dens. Literally. The two are co-founders of sustainable design group, Ground Lab, where they're working with GPS tracking collars for animals, including some of Africa's "problem lions"--those that regularly attack livestock. They're being rigged with Ground Lab's open-source tracking collars to both reduce livestock killing and also monitor when the lions approach communities where lion poachers are known to lurk. The standout feature of Ground Lab's designs is that they're open-sourced, so conservationists and other supporters can scale monitoring for all sorts of critters--lions or cows they stalk. Initial testing has already been completed in Tanzania and Kenya and the team is about to embark on a longer phase of testing in Kenya again this summer.
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Spigit. Aeroclay. Lodekka on Cool Hunting. On the corner of Williams and Failing in northeast Portland, OR, a newly-restored double-decker bus gleams in the early afternoon sunlight. People walking to any of the nearby cafes and restaurants take out their iPhones and take pictures as they pass. "I have the greatest job in the world," said the owner, Erin Sutherland, who restored the bus with the help of a few friends and converted it to a vintage shop, now called Lodekka. The name comes from the bus model. It's a 1965 Bristol Lodekka that Sutherland found and renovated with the help of her friends, ripping out chairs and scraping off wallpaper paste.
When Sutherland lost her job six months ago, she found herself with a lot of time on her hands and an ingenious idea. Portland has a booming food cart industry, why not start a vintage dress cart? Sutherland spends half the week shopping for stock and the other half chit-chatting with customers as they navigate the bus interior, examining its many treasures. Ideabing.com.