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Google is releasing Android for the wearable tech industry to use. What we'll need soon is not just in getting all these devices to interact with one another using a common operating system but getting these devices to interact with the human body as well.

As a consumer, it doesn't make sense to fight wearable tech. Fitness and wellness technologies such as Nike+ FuelBand and FitBit demonstrate very digestible ways that regular folks are already wearing technology.

I went to this great open house yesterday on campus, "Robot Block Party." Everything from the Nasa robotics team to amateur tinkerers frankensteining robots in their backyards. A couple people from the Exhibits team at the Cal Academy showed a kinect-powered robot they had been tinkering with as a side project, where - their idea - would be to put the robot (with a camera) on the roof, and you'd be able to "drive" it using the kinect inside the museum. And of course, there was the self-driving race car, complete with the ubiquitous Stanford parking sticker.

Everything will be smart.

Pandora for museums? Where will this take us on our tech journey?

More on self-driving cars. I hope when I am ready to trade in my A4 this tech will be available. No more driving around looking for a parking spot!

Pocket-sized xray machine will be here before you know it...identify materials in an instant like a Star Trek tricorder.  Best part: my son works for this company!  Watch the video, he's on the left in the first shot of the lab.

$100/month membership-based workshops filled with otherwise inaccessible and often hugely expensive machinery, such as CNC mills, 3D printers and laser cutters. populated by people whose skills in computed-aided design and access to new materials is changing the world of manufacturing Perhaps, as has been suggested, the greatest opportunity for small scale manufacturing is in the developing world. But can Tech Shop be replicated in regions that aren't flush with people who have sizable disposable incomes?

High-tech sizing machines scan customers and offer a list of recommended clothing, eliminating returns and providing manufacturers with real-world data

The rise of wearable technology.

Consolidation of tech giants is something we should be paying attention to, I believe. 

forecast that worldwide spending on wearable technology will hit $1.4 billion this year. By 2018, that figure will hit $19 billion

Entrepreneurs developing senior-focused products.  Are museums paying enough attention to this demographic?