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Siri - The Personal Assistant in your Phone — Siri … this is pretty damn impressive. Unfortunately it’s not available in the DE iTunes store yet.
"Founded by a Brooklyn-based hackerspace, MakerBot Industries aims to promote the DIY manufacturing movement by producing affordable 3D printers that allow people to create almost any plastic object. CupCake CNC is the company’s main product. Made from a 100% open source design that can be freely downloaded, the CupCake takes digital design files as its input and produces 3D objects by building up layers of plastic. The machine is sold as a flat-pack kit that can be assembled by two people in a couple of days. It can even make its own replacement parts. Tinkerers can create their own designs from scratch using CAD software, or download a design file from Thingiverse, an online repository for the sharing of open source MakerBot designs."
An open-source 3D printer for the masses - Springwise — The price tag is US$750. That is cheap. Coincidence of the week: I’ve started reading Doctorow’s “Makers” yesterday, which features stuff like this early on in the book. [via assaf]
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Sicherheit ist ein kostbares Gut in einer Demokratie. Wer es missbraucht, der spielt mit den Stützpfeilern der Gesellschaft.
Wer die Welt als eine einzige große Bedrohung erscheinen lässt, der radikalisiert und emotionalisiert, der treibt die Menschen entweder ins Schneckenhaus oder auf die Barrikaden. Pazifistische Generalverweigerung trägt dabei ebenso wenig zu mehr Sicherheit bei wie das Geschrei vom Weltenbrand.
Sicherheit erfordert Mäßigung und Aufmerksamkeit. Sicherheit braucht kundige Bürger, wehrkundige, sicherheitskundige Bürger.
"Sicherheitspolitik - Abschied von der Sehnsucht nach Sicherheit - sueddeutsche.de
Ephemera for Mac
I’ve built something. Ephemera is two-way Instapaper.com sync for your ebook reader.
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The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing.
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The people don’t want “tablet computers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a product attempting broad acceptance). They could honestly give a shit whether it’s a closed or open system. And, let’s be really honest, they probably care as much about DRM as they do about baseball players juicing; by which I mean not very much at all. They want things to work most of the time, and be easy to fix when they don’t. And if the process by which it happens is “magic” they are totally cool with that.
They want the thing in the movies.
As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make you stupid. It simply means you do not want root access. Failing to comprehend this is not only a failure of empathy, but a failure of service.
"Mule Design Studio’s Blog: The Failure of Empathy — Well said.
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Package Design: Sensis Condoms — Great design, hands down. [via]
Stephen Colbert on “what are you doing right now???”-type social networking sites. I love his suggestions re new sites. :)
Sussex Safer Roads Partnership (SSRP) | Embrace Life — Wonderful PSA, really well done. [via]
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