Kickstarter Project Sends Solar Powered Androids to Brazilian Amazon

When most people think of the Brazilian Amazon, they imagine a dense jungle and twisting river, cut off entirely from the industrialized world around it. Certainly not a place where smartphones would be necessary -- or even welcome, for that matter.

Jeffrey Mansfield, a masters candidate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, disagrees. Three weeks ago, he launched a Kickstarter project to introduce solar-powered digital toolkits to the people who live in the Amazon Rainforest, in hopes of bringing increased opportunity and communication outlets to the often overlooked community.

"The smartphone is our generation's answer to the Swiss Army Knife"

The project, Takin…
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