April 17, 2012 in TED Talks, Uncategorized
Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster – from scratch
“It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil … it’s frankly amazing he got as far as he got. A parable of our interconnected society, for designers and consumers alike.”
MB Logan ’15 and Tim O’Reilly ’15 have been hard at work the last few weeks on the logistics of the Greywater Project.
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Thomas Thwaites is an amazing designer, he is so innovative and I can see he is a very good public speaker. This is actually what I like about TED conferences, it gives people to talk about what they love and do for living, people who are actual experts in their field.