Bruno Abrantes

Take a look around the room you’re in right now. See all those devices, all that furniture, all those DVDs? All that stuff? Have you ever wondered where it comes from? Annie Leonard at The Story of Stuff did, and she wants to share her findings with the rest of the world in this amazing video.

“The Story of Stuff” is a 20 minute, down-to-earth and approachable animation that goes through the various stages of the product lifecycle (Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption and Disposal) while providing enormous insight into what she believes to be a fundamentally crippled business model. Make sure you watch this and pass it on. You won’t be disappointed, and hey, this girl might just end up saving the world.

Palantir is a small project developed by a group of Facebook engineers -  Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford – at a Facebook Hackathon contest. Apparently the name derives from some Lord of The Rings mythology (but of course).

Anyway, the project seems really interesting, and it is basically a video showing Facebook users interacting all over the world. The images don’t do it justice, you should really watch the video.

Facebook currently says it would be interesting in making this into a real product, but that for now it’s not on schedule. Let’s all hope this sees the light of day.