Merlin Mann and Cory Doctorow

Danny O'Brien, Ada, and Quinn Norton at the Maker Fair

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From Etech 2004...not everyone was enchanted with the idea of killer combat robots. It all depended on where you saw yourself in the video with the army, manned with killer robots, outside, and the dissidents inside.

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Peter Norvig, Ph.D. from Google in his High Order Bit presentation.

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Daniel Keller

Inside the vintage 50's era car complete with 21st century add-ons.

Tutorial: Hack Sci-Fi Features into Your Car

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Brendan Eich, giving his High Order Bit presentation: The App is the API: Building and Surviving Remixable Applications

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big and shiny and 10 years old

An attendee looks under the chairs to find a Nokia sticker to win a prize after Nokia's Jon Bostrom's presentation.

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See the blog post for more info: Make Fest

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Zaheda Bhorat

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etech, san jose, ca - it's been a long time since I got to build hardware and connect and program it. awe-some.

Yahoo!'s Gary William Flake in his High Order Bit presentation: From the Labs: Yahoo! Research Labs

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See the blog post for more info: VaultCamp, a Party in a Bank Vault

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Bob looking out the window at the Manchester Grand Hyatt

Rael Dornfest and Tim O'Reilly at the Press Conference.

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eTech

patrick chen's laptop and lantronix xport and basic-x microcontroller === happiness! (i didn't have a USB-serial adapter for my VirtualPC-running Mac so I had to look on and "help")

This particular experiment above was on the Net and if you telneted to it and sent it commands you could cause various LEDs to blink.

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Tim O'Reilly at the Press Conference.

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The iSight built into Damien Stolarz's minivan.

Tutorial: Hack Sci-Fi Features into Your Car

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Meg Hourihan

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An audience member listens to Jimmy Wales.

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David Weinberger asks a question of the Folksonomy panel.

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Even with the buzz of the conference to come, many people, including Matt Biddulph, find time to do a bit of work on their laptops.

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Boing Boing contributor Xeni Jardin in the hallways.

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A member of the audience listens to Neil Gershenfeld.

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Chris Heathcote during the Tangible Computing presentation.

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Danny Hillis during his High Order Bit presentation: Remixing Technology at Applied Minds

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applying his mind

EFF Pioneer Awards at ETech 2008.

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Conference chair Rael Dornfest keeps tabs on everything using his Blackberry.

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You can't make names like this up.