Technology isn’t good or bad. It’s a tool. This week has been a great reminder of that as a Texan showed off a working gun printed on a 3D printer and a South African showcased a cheap prosthetic hand. Read more »
Chipmakers are eying the maker community as a possible development community for the internet of things. Texas Instruments has two new offerings for this crowd. Read more »
Kickstarter projects are the new normal for a hardware projects, but even though the challenges associated with manufacturing are documented, fulfillment too, can be an issue. Read more »
We’ve digitized news, music and movies, but Fabsie wants to make it possible to digitize furniture designs. The result will be custom furniture at lower prices, thanks to new manufacturing trends. Read more »
SparkFun, the DIY hardware retailer, is taking it’s hacker classes aimed at kids and educators on the road. It’s part of many efforts to get kids involved in making their own gadgets and programming. Read more »
Personal computers and broadband were work tools before gaining wider adoption in consumer homes. Now, I wonder if 3D printers can make the leap from engineering and office tool to the next must-have machine in the home? How would that change the world? Read more »
For the Makers is part of a new trend of DIY boxes that allow would-be makers to try their hand at creating crafts and accessories. The New York-based company launched out of private beta in December and has deals with Anthropologie and Gilt City. Read more »
For those friend sof yours who are always knee-deep in robotics or waiting for their Raspberry Pi mini-computer to ship, we’ve consulted with a few experts and come up with some fun kits and toys that might make their holidays. See if anything strikes your fancy. Read more »
Thanks to Arduino kits and the Raspberry Pi Linux computer, computing now can cost less than LEGOs. So today’s kids — and a generation of enthusiast hackers — are creating a movement that might incubate the next Woz. What will cheap computing build? Read more »
What if the current DIY trend is as fundamental a shift to manufacturing as broadband is to … everything? I offer up 3 products that not only are awesome to have in your home, but may be to DIY what email was to broadband. Read more »
Chicago’s Excelerate Labs may not have quite the outsized demo day as Y Combinator, but the 10 companies that just graduated from is accelerator program were still impressive. Here are the five startups that made the biggest impression on us: Orbeus, Lasso, Cureeo, Pictarine and Whimseybox. Read more »
Martha Stewart-style crafts and cooking projects generate a ton of “likes” and “pins” online, but social discovery and commerce site The Fancy and peer-to-peer marketplace Zaarly think they can also generate some cash. Read more »
Creativity apps on Apple’s iOS platform aren’t just a consumer fad — investors want in too. Snapguide, an iPhone app that lets anyone create an easy how-to guide with their phone, snapped up a $5 million investment round earlier this month. Read more »
The Web is fantastic, but even with our smartphones, we’re still stuck staring at a screen. Some startups and DIYers are trying to make it easier to bring the binary interactions of our digital lives into the real world. This is awesome. Read more »
For the electric car to be a mainstream success it needs to follow the closed Apple model, not the open Google model. Read more »
TV viewership is still on the rise, with the typical American watching five hours a day now, according to research by Nielsen. That hasn’t slowed the growth of online video: In fact, the amount of content streamed is accelerating, too. While it hasn’t yet made a ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
It’s not exactly the most scientific test ever conducted, but a very practical experiment conducted by Softpedia’s Filip Truta reveals that the new Apple Magic Mouse pales next to its predecessor in at least one significant way. That area of weakness is power management, and the […] Read more »
One of my new year’s resolutions is to pursue more DIY projects. This includes things like putting Jolicloud on my Hackintosh netbook, swapping out the hard drive on my iMac, and, most importantly, doing something with my old Apple hardware. I currently own a Powerbook G4 […] Read more »
A hand-picked selection of the latest releases for iPhone? Plus, a handy summary of Apple news from the past seven days? We’ve got it all, you lucky person, you. Despite the deluge of announcements at last week’s WWDC, we’ve had no time to rest this week, […] Read more »
There’s no shortage of companies toiling away to provide you with an easy-to-use, low-maintenance system for monitoring your home energy use. But if you’re a DIY geek and think something a little more hands-on would be cool — or if you want to manage not just […] Read more »
