FLOAT Beijing
Description
"Leave it to a pair of graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University to take it to the grassroots level: combining technology, design, environmental activism and the local tradition of kite-flying, designers Deren Guler and Xiaowei Wang created FLOAT Beijing, a project that uses kites equipped with air quality sensors that allows citizens to get active in monitoring their local aerial environment." (http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/float-beijing-gets-locals-use-kites-map-air-quality.html_