Where are all the makers?
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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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Linda Parker and Mary Reilly run Creative Brush Studio in an Old Town Manassas building that was vacant for 14 years. It wasn't alone; at one time, three dozen storefronts stood empty in Victorian-era brick buildings.
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Why dopes still beat boffins The current generation of "consumer robots" is driven mostly by robot-love: people enjoy things which move around on their own, especially if they can build or tinker with the gadgets themselves.Â Â  That much became clear at a recent symposium on Robots, which I described here last month. The consumer robot business today is manned by avid tinkerers because there is neither a technology for autonomous gadgets, nor a business model to support them even if they did exist.â¦
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By Naitove, Matt  I admit it: I like trade shows, especially big ones like NPE. Where else do you get to see so much new stuff from so many companies, countries, continents in one place? The opportunity to stumble onto some fascinating invention from a firm you never heard of is ...
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Don't tell the children, but Santa's elves' North Pole jobs have been outsourced. Eighty percent of the world's toys , according to investigative journalist Eric Clark, were made in China's Pearl River Delta. In his provocative new book, "The Real Toy Story," Clark calls that part of the world's most-populous country "Santa's Sweatshop."
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WUJIANG, China -- Liao, a 28-year-old engineer, worked at a large electronics company in this coastal province town, two hours west of Shanghai. He helped decide where to place large production machines on the factory floor, and how many workers were needed on which assembly lines. Last year, he won...
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Maker Faire, the alternative do-it-yourself event, winds up in Austin, Texas, with imaginations wowed, stretched and captured.
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By Edited by Steve Riches  MY mention of our goldfish population standing at 15 million had you asking for more...   THERE are dozens of types of goldfish, but all originate from the gibel carp of China.   MOST popular are the Common, Comet, Fantail and Shubunkin.
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BILLERICA -- The question elicits a gasp on the other end of the phone. William Donovan, president of Cambridge Tool &amp; Manufacturing, is momentarily speechless when asked why not move his small company overseas, where manufacturing costs are cheaper.
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The PHPWomen have posted a reminder about the mailing list that they're going to "dust off" and start using again (and suggest you do too!).   There's just the one list currently (as hosted by omniti) but there's lots of subscribers. You can check out the signup page for more information on the list and get access to some of the archives of previous topics.
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Business & money: A hundred years ago there was a greater proportion of women working in manufacturing than there is today. By Ashley Seager.
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Fab Labs -- facilities built by MIT researchers to provide technology to make just about anything -- are springing up worldwide. At the newest one, in Ghana, newcomers were most enthused by the ability to make pink plastic key chains. By Michelle Delio.
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By Rozana Sani  INDIVIDUALS and enterpri
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The SEEDS field team is now camping in Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. This is the summary of their update: 1. There is no NGO doing relief work in Andaman and Nicobar so far.
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Game animator I-Wei Huang is getting rave reviews for his steam-powered robots. How does he hack RC kits with steam engines? And will he ever make a rideable robot? By Griffin Wright.
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FPD (flat-panel display) makers from Taiwan, Japan and South Korea are competing for the spotlight at FPD International 2004 in Yokohama Japan (October 20-22).
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David Coallier has an update today on the effort to get PEAR developers all over the world mapped out to a Google map to show their locations - one that's finally been launched.   Over the past weeks we have had many people asking around if it would be possible to have a place to see the pear developers around the world. Well now Christian Weiske and I (With the help of Arnaud Limbourg) have put up a nice little map system on pear.php.net. You can see it at http://pear.php.net/map/   David also links to images of some of the administration panels for the application (one, two, three) and the connection information for a web service (REST) that allows access to all of the data.