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Street Hacks, Hacked

The slides from tonights Street Hacks presentation with Duncan Burns are now available - download from here (PowerPoint, 7MB).

It's essentially an update to this essay including some slides relating to fakes, dual SIM card use and Remade - the phone concept literally made form nothing new. Related research lives here and sign up to receive notification of future research by sending an email to: subscribe @ janchipchase.com.

A fuller list of research contributers appears on the second slide. Thanks to Peter Merholz for hosting and for attendees for getting into the spirit of the discussion. It's a good sign when the 'presenters' leave knowing more than when we arrived. And on a personal note I don't think we've ever stood between a room full of people and boxes of fresh pizza and lived to tell the tale.

Slides from top to bottom: the prevelance of software and content on demand from the streets of Delhi to the local corner store in Cairo - but could equally be Shanghai or Tehran or ...; issues related to fake phones - in this case a 'Nokia' from the streets of Accra supporting dual SIM card slots - the phone shows two send and end keys; a digital repair manual hack showing how to switch frequency bands; and soliciting the opinions of market ladies on the streets of the Nima neighbourhood in Accra in new design concepts - a small part of the participatory design work that we've been doing.

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