I've been intrigued by the Sony Reader for ages, but hadn't actually tried one out until I visited the Sony booth at Maker Faire. I was pleased to learn the Sony Reader is just as big, if not bigger than your average paperback, which means your eyes won't have to strain to look at the screen. I was also pleased to see how thin the reader is, and while I love the feeling of a nice paperback by Read more

I missed Spark Fun at this year's Maker Faire, but word is they displayed their Picture Frame Tetris, a string of 15 buttons pads and a bunch of ATmega8s programed to the rules of Tetris. The interactive game was made with "720 LEDs, 16 microcontrollers, and 10 pounds of wires, sweat, and code." I am shamelessly entertained. Read more

The bright and shiny exhibits at this year's Maker Faire were fine and dandy, but one of the sights I was most excited to see was the exhibit of vintage, "oh so clunky, I can't believe people thought that was innovative" computers. Hidden in a dark corner of the San Mateo Fairgrounds, was a selection of marvelously vintage geek computers (and an Atari) that have gained cult geek status for being Read more

The Nabaztag, which is a little wifi rabbit that acts as a messenger and alerts you to everything that's going on in your online world, has been a big hit on geeksugar so I was pleased to see Roy Batchelor, who is know as the "Bunny Wrangler," at this year's Maker Faire. Batchelor heads up Nabaztalk, an online community and forum where Nabaztag fans can chat about their bunnies, get help setting Read more

Media designer Syuzi Pakhchyan embodies geek chic. Pakhchyan's studio Sparklab mixes culture, craft and technology by weaving circuitry into bags, jewelry, wristbands or bicycle safety jackets. She displayed her tote bags decorated with circuits at this weekend's Maker Faire and drew a huge crowd of geeky girls (and guys!) intrigued by the totes as well as Pakhchyan's Do It Yourself kits which Read more

JiSun Lee's booth at this weekend's Maker Faire featured my favorite "science faire meets real life" art pieces. Lee pulled my boyfriend and I out of the crowd, pinned a white wedding veil on my head and put a bow tie on my boyfriend in record time (he didn't even have time to panic!) then led us to her interactive wedding cake. We were then instructed to push the buttons on the outside of the Read more

One of the Maker Faire tables that seemed to draw the most attention from curious onlookers was Aphrodite Project, a series of new media artworks, including interactive, wearable platforms that are a "conceptual homage to the cult of the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, a practical object for contemporary sex workers, and a vehicle for public dialogue." While the platforms may look snazzy, shiny Read more

This weekend thousands of geeks crowded into the San Mateo fairgrounds for Maker Faire, a celebration of crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself projects put on by Craft and Make Magazines. For those of you who have never attended the event it's a mixture of the world's largest science fair, a craft festival with a mini dose of Renaissance Faire (seriously, there were people Read more