NextFest
WIRED magazine's NextFest was at Navy Pier in Chicago this year. Can't pass up that opportunity, so dragged Inga with me to check it out. I created a Flickr Photo Page with the photos from NextFest and if you can also go to the NextFest website if you want to get an idea of what NextFest is all about.
The highlight of the show for me was meeting Lorenzo Santillan (student - left) and Fredi Lajvardi (teacher - right), with their robot 'Stinky' (center) who were among the students and teachers featured in the story La Vida Robot. The La Vida Robot story was linked to a few months ago, so I'm sure many have read the story already :) . It is one of the best tales of ingenuity and percaverance that you will ever read.
There is a follow-up story to their tale, as there has been an outpouring of support for the students with contributions to the LaVida Robot scholarship fund and a producer lined up to turn their story into a major Hollywood movie. Contributions to their scholarship fund can be made here.
