Maker Faire makes its Texas debut
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Do-it-yourselfers gather for a weekend in Austin to revel in the gadgetry.
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By Sandra Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By R.A. Dyer, and Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Beer cans of all shapes and sizes, signs from long-defunct brands and even business cards from microbreweries were among the items collectors sought as they gathered this week for an event dubbed the CANvention.
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By Jerri Stroud, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Sep. 7--A St. Louis County accounting firm has a cure for the high cost  of traveling to trade shows: a virtual technology fair.
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A video tour of Texas has won British artist Jeremy Deller the Turner Prize, one of the art world&#39;s most contentious awards. Deller, hot favourite with bookmakers to land
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Leaders of the "personal fabrication" movement gather in Austin to discuss how to bring such tools to a wider audience of people.
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Peapod Toys touts an MP3 player for the teething set. GadgetLab goes to the International Toy Fair in New York.
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The thread is there, and the loom looks ready.
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TechShop, the public-access workshop in Menlo Park, Calif., is on its way to becoming a premier resource for metalworking enthusiasts, with new locations in six states.
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As the opening bell for Maker Faire Austin nears, at least half the exhibitors haven't shown up yet.
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Microsoft's internal science fair shows off some projects that may turn into real products.
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Wired's geek festival comes up big this year with lifelike robots, homes of the future and immersive games. Peep a preview of this weekend's activities.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung ElectronicsÂ opened a $3.5 billion memory chip factory in Austin Thursday, the biggest such plant in Texas. The world's largest memory chip maker will produce NAND flash memory, which is used to store data in a wide range of products, from digital cameras to iPods, at the facility. Production at the factory will start in the second half of this year, and the first product to be made there will be 16Gb NAND flash chips, using a 50-nanometer production process. Such new factories ensure plentiful supply for the memory chip industry, which is important for keeping prices down for users as more and more people buy consumer electronics that let them capture, share and store pictures, songs and other data. The new chip facility covers the area of nine football fields, and will reach an output of 60,000 wafers per month by 2008. Hundreds of memory chips can be made on one silicon wafer. It will be among the most advanced memory chip plants in the U.S. when it starts churning out 50-nanometer chips later this year. There are about three to six atoms in a nanometer, depending on the type of atom, and it describes the smallest size of features on a chip. Currently, 65-nanometers is considered cutting edge, though Intel makes some products using 45-nanometer technology. Samsung has hired 1,600 employees for the factory. Samsung Electronics currently operates 15 semiconductor production lines globally, including two factories in Texas.
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If the Airbus aircraft design and manufacturing firm put its stamp on aviation history last week, Texarkana, Texas, to some degree, put its stamp on the company s newest product.
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In a new twist on the idea of concealed weapons, a local gun maker and gun shop are debuting a new type of firearm: one that could almost fit in your wallet.
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At Maker Faire Austin, the crew behind the giant Star Wheel put together their bike-tech-powered carnival ride for the first time outside of Burning Man.