RNC protests: Bikes Against Bush organizer arrested

August 30, 2004 | Politics, Public Service, Toys and Gadgets | By: Mark VandeWettering

Dot Matrix PrinterBoingBoing reports that Joshua Kingberg was arrested at the RNC in New York for operating his bicycle mounted dot matrix printer. It’s an enormously cool hack: you basically ride the bike and it leaves a message in its trail in the same way a dot matrix printer works. The message is written in a water soluble chalk solution which washes right off. A very cool idea, and a pitifully sad day for free expression that he was both arrested and his cool gizmo confiscated.

But then the RNC is not known for its humor.