Month: September 2013

Respond to Susan Taing

Respond to Susan Taing

Susan Taing will be looking for responses at World Maker Faire New York.

The founder of the 3D-printer-powered design house Bhold is building her business model around the concept of “responsive product design:” an approach that quickly pushes ideas down the road from concept to product, efficiently incorporating customer feedback along the way. The key to her philosophy? Direct feedback from customers, and the ability, via 3D printing, to quickly act on it.

Seismic Shifts: Dark Ages, Industrial Age, and Now…the Maker Age?

At the ground level, the maker movement is empowering people in garages and makerspaces to hack, tinker, and share technology to suit their needs rather than wait for others to make it for us. But collectively, the maker movement has set something much bigger in motion. It’s a force that has the power to change the course of history.That’s heady stuff, but according to thinkers Dough Rushkoff and Karim Asry that’s the potential of the maker movement. They see us standing standing on the edge of a new era—the maker era. Both men will be making this point during presentations at Maker Faire New York next week.