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Podcast: Creative Culture
Episode: Simone Giertz: Beyond Shitty Robots
Description: In August 2015 Simone Giertz posted an 8-second long, toothbrush machine video, showing a machine she designed to remove the drudgery of manual tooth brushing. It was funny, ridiculous, and got shared just about everywhere. That video would come to define much of what Simone’s videos would be about: making machines that sort of make sense. Like an alarm clock that slaps you awake or a breakfast machine that ensures you will be cleaning up a bunch of Cheerios. It wouldn’t be long before fans had dubbed her the Queen of Shitty Robots, a title...