Voice of America: A Focus on Human Needs at New York Design Show

Voice of America, 2010-06-09

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Voice of America reports on the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's triennial show of the best designs from around the world, now on display in New York until early 2011. The Interactive Instituteis invited to show the Power Aware Cord, which is also mentioned in the article:

"Not all the designs in the show are intended primarily for undeveloped areas. Renewable sources of energy are needed everywhere. High-altitude kites with tiny turbines on their edges collect wind energy and send it down the line to be stored and used on earth. The M10 Kite-power system was invented by Damon Vander Lind, an American, and Becker Van Niekerk, a South African. Another design, aimed at people in richer countries, is the Power Aware Cord, created by Anton Gustafsson and Magnus Gyllenswärd at the Interactive Institute in Sweden. It shows the amount of energy that an appliance is drawing through light that glows and pulsates."