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Over family dinner one night about eight months ago I proclaimed to my teenage kids and my wife that every family should have their moonshot, a ridiculously ambitious goal that smashes outside their comfort zone and careers them together into unmapped...

So that shiny new 3D printer has arrived! You unwrap the packaging and behold it in all its sleek, modern glory, skipping over to your computer to start working on designs to 3D print. Setting it up on the desktop, you flick a switch, set the files rolling...

Kickstarter has emerged as the leading crowd-funding platform over the last year, and eagle-eyed technology watchers have clubbed together to back some fantastic projects through 2013. If you want to see the biggest trends in technology, just take one...

Last week I had a long and fun Skype talk with Dan Shapiro. Dan and I met at the last Maker Faire in New York and we really hit it off. Dan is an entrepreneur, inventor, designer, software designer and all around interesting guy. I wrote a little about...

Tracks and Fields New York's High Line––once an elevated railway, now a popular park––has inspired other cities to reclaim old train trestles. Click the numbers below to read about other parks. The Crowd Takes Over 2009 is...