Don-8r robot set to make the homeless obsolete (video)

I know this looks silly, but there's a twinkle of a great idea here. Using technology to influence philanthropy is a step that many charitable organizations are already making with social applications and complex, sustainable donation and fundraising systems. Tell me more Don-8r robot, I'm listening.

 

 

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Don-8r the panhandling robot set to make the homeless obsolete (video)

via Engadget by Brian Heater on 4/26/11

Until now, one field has been safe from robotic interference: collecting money on the street. Not for long. A space already overcrowded with guitar playing hippies, dogs in bandanas, and children carrying bright orange UNICEF boxes has a new force to reckon with. It's Don-8r (pronounced "donator," for those who don't speak robot), programmed expressly to collect change and be adorable. University of Dundee student Tim Pryde created the coin-fueled robot to help raise money for charity. It's taken a few spins around the school's campus and has already mastered the three Ps of money collection: politeness, persistence, and performance -- the latter accomplished via color changing lights in its orb-like head. Video of Don-8r doing its thing after the break.

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Mental Disorder Posters

via Design Milk by Jaime on 4/3/11

British designer Patrick Smith has created a great series of Mental Disorder Posters.

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Amazing transgender performer on "Thailand's Got Talent" (video)

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Human remix: Amazing transgender performer on "Thailand's Got Talent" (video)

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Video Link. A version with English subtitles is here.

Above, Bell Nuntita, or in Thai, Nuntrita Khampriranon, on the "Thailand's Got Talent" TV show.

I will refrain from including any spoilers in this blog post, but just stay with it. The performance is clever and beautiful. Thailand is a country with many problems, but it's pretty awesome that a moment like this can happen in popular culture there, with applause and acceptance.

Make sure you see her message to her father, the last 45 seconds or so of the video clip. And you just *try* not to cry while you're watching that.

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