Tech Entrepreneurs Have Big Ideas… For Burning Man

The best and brightest of the tech industry are getting ready to burn.

Tech, meet playa.

Silicon Valley's best and brightest have big ideas for this year's Burning Man, according to Slate.

The festival of 60,000-plus free spirits in the Nevada desert -- which such luminaries as Elon Musk, the Tesla founder, have claimed "is Silicon Valley" -- will have some new accoutrements this year thanks to the tech industry, the site reported.

They'll include Camp Bitcoin, a camp intended for lovers of crypto-currency, as well as some more interesting things even a Luddite could grok.

That'd be vehicles like "The Zeppelin," a "massive airship made of color and light" designed by an ex-Google employee named Casey Ho.

There's also a "lightning-spewing party dome" and a reprise of the pirate ship seen at older Burning Mans, the Web site reported.

So if you enjoy a wondrous Burn this year -- thank a tech bro. Or girl.

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