Simputer : High tech meets extreme poverty
posted by troutfishing on Sep 29, 2005 - 22 comments

Lustron House "We were revolutionizing a whole industry," said Richard Jones, former Lustron vice president of sales. "We were saying with our house: 'You put down a hammer and a saw and pick up a wrench.'" Though radical in its use of porcelain enameled steel, the Lustron house — a one-story, gabled-roof ranch with a bay window and side porch — looked much like other postwar-era dwellings. Behind its traditional façade, however, lay the hopes and expectations for a new era in American housing.
posted by goalyeehah on Sep 8, 2005 - 14 comments

I can't afford my gasoline.
posted by Guerilla on Sep 7, 2005 - 63 comments