I have been playing with a concept for creating a modular mobile clubbing an office desk, laptop computer, iPOD and a personal customizable mobile which is locally manufacturable with renewable material.
This is part of the overall dream of creating a self sustaining city
The articles are in http://dancrissco.wordpress.com/
It is a work in progress and now I am working on the digital prototyping phase
Professionally I am what you call a factory automation engineer. So I normally work with designing, building and setting up production lines for health related products. As part of the process I get to play with the latest in technology including laser ablation, peizo inkjet printing and dispensing, machine vision, robotics, statistical process control.
I have been recently introduced to Design Thinking and am hooked on the philosophy an I may have practiced it unknowingly all these years.
My articles are a labor of love written to challenge my peers on lateral thinking and for design students to use as a spring board for more innovative ideas
As you can see I have taken full advantage for the design license allowed in design writing