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I really liked Neil Gershenfeld’s book FAB, which talks about the personalization of fabrication. This book discusses a trend in which the power to fabricate things shifts from specialized factories to personal fabrication. Imagine having a small factory sitting on your desk that churns out real-life functional objects, combining construction material with electronics and other [...]

After hearing Bruce Sterling’s Emerging Technology keynote about ‘The Internet of Things’, I got interested into the concept of thinglinks, labels for everyday items bringing tagging, linking and searching to the real world. Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, who coined the term has now created an open database where people can create and share thinglinks, making the first [...]