17/09/09 - Herald on Sunday: Bridging the gap between low and high-tec
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The MIT Media Lab, hotbed of leading-edge information technology development, has a new mission - bringing quilting into the 21st century.
For the Boston-based facility that came up with the world-changing One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation, high-tech quilting and its ilk represent a shift of emphasis.
It's what Leah Buechley, an electronic textiles expert who has been conducting workshops in Auckland, sees as a process of democratisation - getting technology out of the lab and into the working spaces of hobbyists and craftspeople.