(aka "Tango" or Aaron Tang)
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"Stay Curious"
I am a creative, designer, artist, techie, investor, inventor, musician, foodie, conference junkie, educator, ideas enthusiast, am Cantonese,
grew up in Kansas, had a blog at Designverb (inactive now) but now share lots on Instagram Stories @hahatango. I create objects, experiences, interfaces, spaces, services, brands, and ideas I can't describe. I studied at RISD for
Industrial Design, Harvard's
GSD about information space, the MIT
Media Laboratory about Tangible Media and Smart Cities, then became
a researcher for the MIT Mobile Experience Design Lab.
I've worked for Sony, Design Continuum,
Herbst Lazar Bell, Invivia, Siemens Medical,
TED, big corps, many startups, and at litl working for a serial entrepreneur incubating
many startups roughly every 10 months =) Upon a global executive promotion I left my Dream job to start my own dream, but before doing so, I Said Go to travel the world to relearn. I played the violin 15 years, been on two TV shows (ABC's American Inventor and PBS's Everyday Edisons), designed a shoe for Converse Join RED, and doodled a Timbuk2 Charity Bag. I co-organized TEDxCambridge in 2010 themed "How do you eat", have attended TED 20+ years, and often review portfolios for RISD students where I am sometimes a guest critic.
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Current Geeks: - Synthetic Humans/Bots/Agents - AI/Human Hallucinations - AI Generating: All Mediums - Start Up Ideas - Stocks, Long Past Geeks: (chronological) - The Mysterious Brain - VR/AR/Metaverse - Knock Offs, why does it matter - What is good design dilema - Truth, but society doesn't seek - Space, Future - Aliens, Metaverse - FPV Drones - Chess - Health Hell, Recovering - Handidness: left vs right - Human oddities: Scream, clap, etc - Photography, Sony A7ii - World Travels, I Said Go! - Synesthesia - Magic, Illusions, puzzles - Human Irrationality - Human Super Powers - Mantis Shrimp - Event Gatherings - Everything Startup world! - User Experience Design, not UX - Mixology, Drink - Food Experiences - Smart Cities, MIT - Tangible Media, MIT - Art Toy: Kidrobot - Consumerism, cradle to cradle - Sustainability - Manufaturing Techniques - Cool Materials: Aerogel, Vanta blk - Behavioral Economics - Mental Design - Architecture - Graphic Design - Industrial Design - Ultimate Frisbee - Tennis - Violin/Orchestra - A Cappella, The Bobs - CGI/FX - Fine Arts |
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Curiosities: - What skills do humans retain that AI/Bots have a hard time replicating? - What do you do as Play that others consider work? - What will you explore now with AI?
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