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Last weekend I took a visit to the MIT Media Lab, easily one of my
top five favorite places ever. I got to hang with the folks in the
high-low tech group, who are working on some very "geek chic"
projects. One of them is the TearDrop kit: TearDrop is a kit that
allows people to explore the creative and practical potentials of
paper-based computing. What interfaces might we build if we could
sketch functional sytems directly on paper? What will circuits look
like when they are painted or d...
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