Affinity Lab Alumni Paul Scandariato's new, super-easy, super-portable personal scanner was named a WIRED magazine Editor's pick, garnering a great review and an 8 out of 10 rating. Scanning directly into several formats (Google Docs, Adobe, etc.) and cloud based storage capability for $129 helps make this the great little tool that it is.

Paul's companies, Apparent and Intelliscnner, make a number of useful tools for organization nerds and are well worth checking out!

Congratulations, Paul!

Doxie Story:
http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_doxie

Pick one up today:

Come join Dreaming Out Loud for a relaxing and rejuvenating day of yoga classes and spa treatments! There will be two yoga classes taught by instructor Courtney Bailey. Classes are open to all levels of experience ($15 per class).

First class: 9:30am
Second class: 11:00am

Tickets http://danceofdays.eventbrite.com/ - PLEASE RSVP DUE TO LIMITED SPACE!

Presented by the Monument Music and Arts Festival, Crooked Beat Records, Smash! Records, Positive Force DC, and Affinity Lab

FEATURING:

- 70 minutes of rare video chronicling DC punk rock history including Fugazi, Bad Brains, Government Issue, Bikini Kill, Minor Threat, Nation of Ulysses and more! All presented with commentary by Dance of Days co-author and local activist Mark Andersen
- Bill of Crooked Beat and Matt of Smash! spinning punk classics
- A couple relevant records curated by Bill and Matt

You Must RSVP

From $1M to $10M

June 12th from 9am-12pm

at Affinity Lab U Street, 920 U Street, NW

part of Digital Capital Week

When: Thursday, July 15th, 6-10PM
Where: Affinity Lab, 920 U St, DC, 20001

Affinity Lab U Street hosts its first art opening: Take Away. This event features artist Lindz Routt. The event kicks off a month-long art event that will challenge the concept of painting and viewer-involved participatory art. This is a collaborative project between Lindz Routt, DJ Arthur Goodland, and TNTrio.

What: Take Away (artwork by Lindz Routt)
Where:Affinity Lab U Street
When: Friday, May 7th, 7 - 10 pm

From the press release:

Affinity Lab member, William James Foundation gets a great write up of their sustainable business plan competition in the New York Times. Affinity Lab sponsored the DC Prize, the local component of the business plan competition.

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/start-ups-win-competition-with-...

Check out DC Tech Source's article on DC's Innovators, which includes an interview with Affinity Lab COO, Philippe Chetrit.

http://www.dctechsource.com/dc_innovators.aspx

From 5:30-8:30PM at Fado's Irish Pub (808 7th St. NW), Razoo will be hosting their annual March Goodness Tournament where a select group of nonprofits will compete for grants based on fundraising through the Razoo network. In last year's competition, more than $160,000 was raised for 30 participating nonprofits that competed for nearly $20,000 in grants and prizes. The big winner in 2009 was Big Cat Rescue of Tampa, FL. Who will win this year?

The success of the Affinity Lab members and the Lab model is discussed in an article in today's Washington Post. Design Symphony and MeMyself&Co were highlighted as examples of companies bucking the small business failure trend brought on by the recession. Affinity Lab's new U Street location was also mentioned as a place where people who are practively taking charge of their economic destiny can start their businesses and collaborate with others.