This week on Spark - Solutions for greater power security, tech solutions for getting a better night's rest and the very cool story of how two guys who have never met are creating mechanical prosthetic fingers together online. Just click the Listen button, or click here to download the mp3. For related links...

Power Security

• Daniel Kammen
• Sustainable Energy For All
• Full Spark interview with Daniel Kammen

Hands Across the Water

• Coming Up Shorthanded
• The fundraising page for Ivan Owen and Richard Von As' project
• Here is where you can find the open-source design plans
• Video of Richard's prototype
  
  

Sleep and Tech

• Dr. Diane Boivin
• The Douglas Institute's Research Centre at McGill
• Dr. Boivin's new book explaining our relationship to sleep, currently available only in French: Le Sommeil et Vous
• The F.lux app (Mac and Windows) dims your computer screen depending on time of day
• Apple says using the "night" screen reduces the blue spectrum light exposure. Read more here.

Sleep Musicalization

• Hannu Toivonen's website:Sleep Musicalization

Sound Interaction

• Karmen Franinovic

Additional Links

• Spark story about the CRTC, the CWTA and cell-phone theft from October 2012
• News about Lady GaGa's album app
• Don Tapscott's new book is an App
• During the show you heard brief clips from a recent Spark interview with Steven Johnson