3D Printing.

Latest on price performance of 3d printers.
What is 3D printing?
Is there enough drama that one can make a movie about 3D printing startups?
Buy? Rent? Or go to local shop... Radioshack, Kinkos, Makerbot Retail... UPS?

MIT Mini Maker Faire.

MIT Mini Maker Faire
MIT Mini Maker Faire
October 4, 2014, North Court, east of Stata Center,  9a-6p

Update: Reference Books for Device, Apparatus and Electronics Design.

Omission in Reference Books for Device, Apparatus and Electronics Design was pointed out. Was going to just update, but seemed worthy of new post.

Where the core is design Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things should be considered. It is both a classic, and has a new edition in 2013. One forgets usability and affordance at one's peril.

IBM and decentralized IoT.

Gigaom coverage of IBM announcement of Adept.
Decentralized approach to Internet of Things (IoT).

Blockchains

Telehash

BitTorrent (message queuing)

Paul Brody, IBM IoT and Mobile

Additonal commentary