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Cesar Harada (28) is an French-Japanese inventor and entrepreneur.
Cesar invented a ground-breaking sailing technology, a boat that changes shape, “Protei”. Originally developed to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Protei is an Open Hardware project now developed by an international community of scientists, engineers and designers for many other applications such as nuclear radiation sensing off Japan, plastic sensing in the Pacific garbage patch, red tide studies in Mexico and much more.
Cesar is also the general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station. Former Project leader at MIT, Cesar teaches Masters in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths University in London. Cesar graduated in 2009 from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Arts in London, his collaborative project Open_Sailing received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the [NEXT IDEA].

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Great illustration of Protei in Canadian Press

Original file here: http://www.canoe.com/sections/fichier/20110404-protei-EN-CS3.pdf

Thanks to Etienne Gernez, Agence QMI  Justin Stahlman et Kinia Adamczyk

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Apr 08, 2011
annie Harada said...
We all abuse our Earth because we produce too much waste, contaminated. courageous young men give all their efforts to create Solutions which are useful for the whole Earth , men and Nature. These solutions are to preserve our Earth. Help them to carry out their legitimate and necessary efforts. Thanks Protei Team and success !!

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