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Pedal cars at maker Fest

Pedal Car Race Competition Heats Up Goli Mohammadi, makezine.com The fine folks of the Fun Bike Unicorn Club (FBUC) are hosting the second annual Death Defying Figure 8 Races this weekend, May 18 and 19, at Maker Faire Bay Area. One look at a handful of the pedal cars that will be racing this weekend,……
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Bulletproof conference: biohack your life

(via Bulletproof Conference — Biohack Your Life) Related articles guardian tecnologia: Kickstarter must not fund biohackers’ glow-in-the-dark plants | Martin Lukacs (guardian.co.uk) Biohacking (wewanttolearn.wordpress.com) Make Yourself Bulletproof (exohuman.com)
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RelayRides: why renting will soon be easier than owning

Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com San Francisco-based RelayRides just announced a deal that puts new corporate and technological weight behind its vision of ubiquitous mobility. Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi http://flip.it/N6Z4N http://flip.it/nT1vk Related articles Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be…
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Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

Ashlee Vance, businessweek.com (An earlier version of this story ran online.) Max Nanis’s website prominently features about two dozen head shots of the skinny, scruffy 22-year-old Southern Californian with his shirt off … RT @Techmeme: Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents (@valleyhack / Businessweek) http://flip.it/8vMDb http://flip.it/mGvsQ http://flip.it/Xvjbf Silicon Valley Goes…
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Food Hackathons: food tech startups growing

Food Hackers Cook Up a Storm of Startup Ideas in San Francisco Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFile this under “more evidence that food-tech is one of the hottest areas for Bay Area entrepeneurs.” A weekend Food Hackathon contest at SOMACentral’s new 450 Townsend Street space attracted some 170 developers, designers,… http://flip.it/YDpSP Related articles New Rock…
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Minority Report tech: coming to your living room

Dan Lyons, readwrite.com The company is called Leap Motion, and if you want to get an idea of how much everyone in San Francisco is buzzing about them, consider this: A few weeks ago I was visiting a different hot new startup in San Francisco, and in the middle of their d… RT @rishad: Huge…
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Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 biomedical and life science companies are clustered in Genome Valley, a research park in Hyderabad, India. (Via Joanne Manaster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost…
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Maker Faire: DIY heaven

Maker Faire – Make Faire Bay Area 2012 May 19th & 20th. Related articles Get free tickets to Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend from Craftside (craftside.typepad.com) Maker Faire ticket winners and Make Ready Journal giveaways in our booth #220 (craftside.typepad.com) Connecticut: 3D Printers Turn Library Into Place of Dreams (infodocket.com) MAKE Honored by the…
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