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Alexis Madrigal

Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.

The App That Delivers Messages With a Dancer's Body

By Alexis Madrigal
Apr 26 2011, 2:20 PM ET Comment

I really wanted to make fun of the Dancewriter App. Actually, I did make fun of the Dancewriter app. I may have said, "Typography and modern dance finally together in a three-dollar app!" But then I tried it out, and I have to say that I love it. Not that I'll use it a lot or even that it's useful, but it's smart and something bordering on art.

You type in a message and a modern dancer named Valentina Scaglia dances it out. Here's a quick video of me playing with it (with apologies for my hair and shoddy camerawork). You can view the message I created here.



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