Finally, A 3-D Printer That Can Sculpt With Silicone, Nutella, Or Pretty Much...
This story includes an interview with Structur3D Printing cofounder and R&D director Andrew Finkle.Most 3-D printers are great at turning designs into solid structures, but can only build with one...
View ArticleA Robot That Shames Your Instagram Friends For Their Lame Selfies
This story contains interviews with Allen & Gerritsen senior vice president of Innovation George Ward.If you use Instagram, you know the cardinal sins: cliche sunsets, gym-clothes selfies,...
View ArticleWho Really Cares About Counting Steps?
This story contains interviews with Sergey Feingold, cofounder of Shot Stats.Activity trackers don't just capture data related to a specific activity--they're actually capturing every move and...
View ArticleWhy Salesforce Is Trying On Wearable Computing
This story includes an interview with Salesforce.com chief scientist J.P. Rangaswami.Not that long ago, being able to quickly glance at a powerful handheld computer to pull up customer information...
View ArticleHackerRankX Wants To Kill The Resume Once And For All
This story contains an interview with HackerRank founder Vivek Ravinsakar.With a scarcity of programmers for hire, employers in need have turned to "challenge-based" hiring platforms like HackerRankX,...
View ArticleThe First 3-D Printer In Space Will Shake Up NASA's Planning-Obsessed Culture
This story includes interviews with Made in Space founders Aaron Kemmer, Mike Snyder, Jason Dunn, and Mike Chen as well as NASA's Niki Werkheiser.When flight controller Jerry C. Bostick coined the term...
View ArticleCreative Ways To Make A Name For Yourself When Bootstrapping
Interview with Michelle Regner, CEO and cofounder of Near Me.Bootstrapping a company is hard: You're married to sales and revenue, you have to produce, and there's no extra runway to save you from...
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Shoot A Feature Film For Oculus Rift
Gregory Plotkin, the director of the upcoming Paranormal Activity 5, is working on a newfangled project at a massive special effects studio in the San Fernando Valley. The actress covered in gore and...
View ArticleFinally, A Materials Science Revolution In Helmet Design
This article contains interviews with Graham Sours, helmet category manager of Smith Optics, and Cassie Abel, communications manager of Smith Optics."There really haven't been many new technologies or...
View ArticleDo You Have To Be A China Expert To Make Hardware?
This story contains an interview with Outdoor Technology cofounder Caro Krissman and Toby Martin, head of software for Bragi.In the world of wireless Bluetooth headphones, size is everything. That's...
View ArticleWhy Science Research Labs Are Getting Into Video Game Development
This story contains interviews with Amy Robinson, creative director of EyeWire; Will Silversmith, full stack developer at EyeWire; and Seth Cooper, creative director of the Center for Game Science at...
View ArticleThis Guy Thinks The Art Of Programming Should Die
The following story contains interviews with Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, and Chris Kelly, GitHub community manager.For a while now, the debate has gone something like this: Should you learn to...
View ArticleIs This The Secret To A Cheaper Internet Of Things?
Interviews with Temboo Product Engineers John Sigmier and Vaughn Shinall.To solve help their own team more easily write and share code, Temboo designed a new way to program called Twyla. It was...
View ArticleThis Smart Watchband Gives Your Favorite Timepiece A Brain Transplant
This story includes an interview with Kiwi Wearables cofounder Ali Nawab.The founders of Kiwi Wearables set out about a year ago to build a wearable computer controlled through state-of-the-art motion...
View ArticleOnce Browser Tech Partners, Google And Apple Are Divorcing. Is The Web In...
This story contains interviews with Telerik's Rey Bango, Google's Alex Komoroske and Opera's Lars Erik Bolstad.It's a little more than a year since Google launched Blink, a custom engine used by Chrome...
View ArticleHow U.S. Soccer Digitally Tracks The "Training Load" On Every Player
This piece contains interviews with Polar Technology's Josh Simonsen, training resource specialist, and Michael Valentino, director of sports performance and education.Until recently, U.S. Soccer kept...
View ArticleYou Can Now Buy Those Futuristic Earbuds From The Movie "Her"
This article contains an interview with Errett Kroeter, director of global industry & brand marketing at Bluetooth SIG.Joaquin Phoenix's character in the movie Her uses a tiny wireless earbud to...
View ArticleReverse Engineering The Reddit Coup
This story contains interviews with Randy Olson, PhD student at Michigan State University; and Jason Baumgartner, a Reddit enthusiast.From the outside, Reddit appears autonomous: submit a link, upvote...
View ArticleWhy Hackers Should Care About Accessibility
This story contains interviews with Faith Haeussler, county coordinator of Philadelphia Link; Peter Trojić, hackathon participant; German Parodi, hackathon participant; Youngmoo Kim, director of the...
View ArticlePortrait Of The Hacker-Artist As A Middle-Aged Man
This story contains interviews with Fred Kahl, an independent artist living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.The maker movement has produced some compelling young characters: Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey;...
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