. . . technology's avant garde

BBC News has a story out on the wire about FutureEverything which took place 12-15 May in Manchester, England

“Artists, musicians, engineers and hackers from around the world recently descended on Manchester for a three day celebration of digital culture.”

Read the article and watch an embedded video HERE

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The disruptive future of printing

A nice article at http://news.bbc.co.uk on the exciting future of 3D printing.

“3D printing will soon come up against laws made in a world of factories and machine tools, and the battle is likely to be even more intense than that over music and films” –Bill Thompson

Evan Malone, founder of NextFab Studio ( Breadboard’s programming [...]

art & science for activists' sake: Open Data Kit, data collection and a new mobility

Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation. – Wikipedia

Citizen Science Projects is a great blog on the topic and fascinating projects taking place around [...]

hacking biology and 3D printing (BBC video and article)

“Hacking and making is no longer just about hardward and software, increasingly it is about wetware – that’s biology to the uninitiated.”

Read more here.

Bacteria that glows in the dark can be cultivated using materials bought [...]