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Olivier G.

How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Widdowson is a specialist. He's one of 10 reverse-engineers working full time for a stealthy company funded by some of the biggest names in technology: Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Sony, and Ericsson. Called the Rockstar Consortium, the 32-person outfit has a single-minded mission: It examines successful products, like routers and smartphones, and it tries to find proof that these products infringe on a portfolio of over 4,000 technology patents once owned by one of the world's largest telecommunications companies.
Laurent Ricard

Stanford 'Makers-in-Residence' program gives teens taste of real-world engineering - 1 views

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    New research aims to shed light on how "FabLabs" may enhance the way high school students learn science, technology, engineering and math.
Laurent Ricard

Bernard Stiegler : « Nous entrons dans l'ère du travail contributif » - Franc... - 0 views

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    Les bureaux de Bernard Stiegler font face au Centre Pompidou, sous les toits de Paris. C'est pour son célèbre voisin que le philosophe a fondé l'Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), afin d'« anticiper les mutations de l'offre et de la consommation culturelle permises par les nouvelles technologies numériques ». Mais dans l'esprit de l'enseignant-auteur-chef d'entreprise, tout est lié : culture, consommation, technique, travail, politique. Pour lui, le modèle consumériste se meurt, comme celui du progrès permanent. Tout s'automatise. L'intérêt économique ne peut plus être le seul poursuivi. Il faut réhabiliter le savoir, la connaissance, la créativité. Comment ? En développant une « économie de la contribution », qui révolutionne la manière de travailler.
Laurent Ricard

3ders.org - New SCENECT version: 3D scanning with Kinect is now even easier | 3D Printe... - 1 views

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    FARO technologies, one of the major manufacturer of portable 3D measuring instruments, has recently announced SCENECT 5.2, the new version of the free 3D scan app that FARO is now introducing to the market.
Laurent Ricard

How to Make Almost Anything | Foreign Affairs - 1 views

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    Gershenfeld about digital fabrication
Laurent Ricard

Where Microsoft geeks go to 'Do epic $#!+' - Aug. 10, 2012 - 1 views

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    here Bill Gates' office used to be -- into a laid-back workshop where staff can tinker with things. It's open to anyone, anytime, and it's got everything from a hardware workshop to an actual working garage door. If it doesn't sound to you like something Microsoft would normally do , the Garage'
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