Metacycle

URL = http://www.metacycle.ca/home/

Description

"The MetaCycle project aims to optimise the creative potential of designers by reuniting them within a virtual community serving the common objective of prolonging the life span of consumer products. The goal of this virtual community is to develop an interactive framework through which consumers can benefit from unique and innovative updates to products that are reaching the end of their useful life. Relying on the exploitation of rapid prototyping techniques, the pooling of a large number of creative minds also allows for the generation of a new category of unique products." (http://www.core77.com/blog/events/changing_the_change_a_call_to_action_10470.asp)