PopTech

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.

• This week D-Rev: Design Revolution, which is run by 2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Krista Donaldson, was highlighted in Fast Co.Exist. D-Rev bringing state-of-the-art, user-centric products to empower the lives of the four billion people living on less than four dollars a day.

• In food tech news, 2011 Social Innovation Fellow Erica Block’s Local Orbit was featured on Xconomy.com. Local Orbit provides one-stop-shopping with an online platform that provides customized websites with e-commerce, management, and marketing tools to help streamline the local food supply chain.

• Earlier this week, Jay Parkinson (PopTech 2009) talked to CBS This Morning about Sherpaa and his ongoing journey to reimagine health care delivery.

• CNN produced a great video on 2011 PopTech Fellow Dominic Muren, his design laboratory Humble Factory, and the makers movement.

• Jad Abumrad (PopTech 2010) wrote a manifesto on how Radiolab was born for Transom.org. For more about Radiolab and sound be sure to watch Abumrad’s  2010 PopTech talk where he shares examples of how sound has been used to make scientific strides as well as convey failure or express error.

• Finally, here’s a free collection of MP3s from Alexi Murdoch, Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly that commemorates their collaboration at the PopTech Iceland 2012.

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