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Dragon Innovation Helps Startups with Manufacturing

May 07, 2013 · 5 minutes · 2 photos

I met up with Herman Pang, President and co-founder of Dragon Innovation this morning at Australia Dairy Company in Hong Kong (“no connection to Australia whatsoever”, according to Herman), for the best scrambled egg breakfast in Hong Kong and a chat about…

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Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Sized TechShop

May 02, 2013 · 4 minutes · 2 photos

Being in Shenzhen is like living in a city-sized TechShop.

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Today we toured just a few of the expansive electronics markets in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen. Our tour guide was Zach Hoeken Smith, program director for HAXLR8R and former co-founder…

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Impressions of China, Day 3

April 30, 2013 · 3 minutes · 2 photos

In the morning we took a fast ferry and crossed over into Zhongshan in mainland China, this time to visit a plastics manufacturer that makes products for some of the biggest toy companies in the world. It seems all of southern China…

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Innovate with China

April 29, 2013 · 7 minutes · 26 photos

We’re changing “Made in China” to “Innovate with China” on our labels, what do you think?

-Eric Pan of Seeed Studio on our visit Sunday

Eric Pan and his company, Seeed Studio, are showing the future of hardware development: hackers around the…

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China Trip Day 2: Impressions of Shenzhen

April 28, 2013 · 3 minutes · 2 photos

Today we took the train from Hong Kong through the New Territories to Shenzhen, a city of over 10 million which basically didn’t exist 30 years ago. Though both Hong Kong and Shenzhen are part of China, the border control that separates…

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Nomiku, Making Sous Vide in China

April 27, 2013 · 3 minutes · 2 photos

We had lunch (a Chinese classic, pizza) with Abe Fetterman, one of the makers of the Nomiku. He and his partners came to HAXLR8R in Shenzhen last year to turn their DIY sous vide machine into a prototype for a consumer product.…

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We’re in China!

April 26, 2013 · 4 minutes · 14 photos

Ethan and I are in Hong Kong now, headed to Shenzhen and Zhongshan, two big factory cities just over the border from here into mainland China. Our mission: to meet entrepreneurs who’ve tapped China’s vast manufacturing prowess to bring their creative products…

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3D Printers Get Cheaper, Better, Faster

April 23, 2013 · 3 minutes · 2 photos

No one seems to know what to do with a 3D printer, not even the people selling 3D printers. But that might not matter.

It turns out making a 3D printer isn’t that hard. A typical ink printer has most of the…

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See you in NYC for Inside3DPrinting

April 18, 2013 · 2 minutes · 2 photos

The Inside 3D Printing Conference

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is taking place next week (April 22-23) in New York City and Hack Things will be there to cover the action and meet with emerging…