Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world.
We’re publishing an 8-part series of videos profiling the winners. Today, meet 15-year-old Ferran Rovira Bosca, of Spain. He created a concept for an “Eco Self-Sustaining House” — architecture of the future that captures its own renewable energy, and operates off the grid. Ferran believes technology can help us come up with new ways of protecing the environment and saving money in our households at the same time. He says he learns a lot about what’s possible in this realm from exploring sustainable technology websites online.
Here’s more about his “Casa Ecologica Autosuficiente.”
Read more about the youth competition in IFTF’s press release announcing Digital Open winners.
- Digital Open Winners: From pocket-sized Altoids tin hack, big dreams emerge
- Digital Open Winner: A Living Diorama, to Change the World.
- Digital Open Winner: teen creates a robot shop
- Digital Open Winners: “Hybrid Airship,” by teen robotic blimp builders.
- Digital Open Winners: A student website by and for teens.
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