Even while preparing for the conference, the ever present mobile phones can't be ignored.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Cal Henderson of Ludicorp, Erik Benson of Robot Co-op at our tutorial on webservices.

Thanks, google! next month - a map of Scottsdale hotels for PC Forum attendees who didn't sign up in time!

See the blog post for more info: ETech 2007

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Nat shows Kathy something interesting on his laptop.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Please give me a moment. I'm dreaming big.

Neil Gershenfeld played several videos of children in third world countries using fabrication equipment.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Alice Taylor during Wednesday night's Maker fair.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

A member of the audience listens to Neil Gershenfeld.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Tim Lauer

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Etech program graffiti

Conference Chair Rael Dornfest listens to Brendan Eich.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Engine of a fuel-cell car. The big metal box is the hydrogen fuel cell.

Robert Kaye

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See the blog post for more info: Make Fest

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Merlin Mann

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Lots of details that hark back to previous generations of R5 in here... one of the things I really like about it!

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Cellular module from sparkfun inside an old rotary phone. (the cell module takes a SIM card) Everything on it works: it can dial out, make calls, and you can have a conversation. It can receive calls too, and the ringer works.

The best part? It's entirely portable and wireless, running off of a Li-ion cell.

The bad part? You can't check your voicemail since cell carriers don't support pulse parsing over their network (dammit!)

etech 2003: ben and mena had typepad-in-progress, meg had kinja-in-progress, and stewart and I had pork sandwiches in progress.

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It's like 1998, only with new buzzwords and better light-up toys!

Hard to imagine, but 'Party like it's 1999" brings on some kind of nostalgia, rather than anticipation.

Cory Doctorow with his trusty laptop companion during an evening BOF.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Alan Taylor, Independent Developer

Erik Benson, Chief Janitorial Officer, The Robot Co-op

Cal Henderson, Lead Developer, Ludicorp

Because sugar is a requirement in all technical endeavour.

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etech, san jose, ca

Tim O'Reilly working on his laptop.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

Clay Shirky on the Folksonomy panel.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

A stack of Firefox Hacks in the ETech Exhibit Hall

The entrance lobby to the San Diego Westin, home of Etech05

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Clay

A view of the audience during the keynote: Rules for Remixing.

This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.

See the blog post for more info: ETech 2007

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