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].
youtube.com/watch?v=OYWmBgHvlJU
HD archive | Mp4 Archive | Flv mini archive
Thanks to the TEDxMidAtlantic organizers Dave Troy and Nate Mook for this great event.
You can see a shorter and clearer video of the Protei.org presentation without speech hesitations and working animations just below :
youtube.com/watch?v=uv5D6E5Nv_M
Download HD archive (84mb) | Original huge HD (1.2GB)
also on youtube
20100817 in Lake Pontchartrain
We just made 2 series of experiments :
1. 3.5m Latex flexible marine energy converter in the Southampton University Towing Tank.
2. 50m Composite flexible marine energy converter at sea in Selsey.
3.5m Energy_Animal flexible marine energy converter, wave + wind + sun powered mesh
communication device.
Coming early march.
There will soon be a short video explaining the experiments and a
PDF with the measurments and how to's here : https://sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/www/labs/energy_animal
Special thanks to Soumik Sengupta, Antonia Nottebohm (photos and videos)
