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BRINGING 3-D POWER TO THE PEOPLE
-The first thing Duann Scott does when he arrives at the Shapeways factory in Long Island City, Queens, is check the bins. They are yellow and stacked in an all-white room that resembles the interior of a spaceship, and they contain the latest prints to come out of the machines, which can really stack up.
-Shapeways, a 3-D printing service and online marketplace, has been described as the Amazon of 3-D printing for its on-demand model, if not its outsize volume: The machines spit out about 120,000 objects a month, a tidal flow of design that runs from the mundane to the astonishing.

Android wear

ANDROID WEAR
Any nascent technology needs a platform in order to be successful. This week, Google gave wearable devices that platform.
With the announcement of Android wear. Google has officially kicked off the wearables era. The availability of an operating system for wearables will lead to an almost immediate boom in device development.
As every device maker knows, the hardest thing about creating a new hardware platform is creating the software to go along with it. Pebble  arguably relaunched  the smart watch conversation with its devices, but has struggled to get developers to contribute meaningful features. That’s understandable, since the market for Pebble watches is currently pretty small. Pebble app development is a passion project, at best.

Xbox one

Xbox one Catches up to PS4 In Feburary!

-After reporting no sales figures in January, Microsoft is moving foward in February. The numbers after a market researcher showed it gaining on Sony's PlayStation 4 in the U.S.

-PS4 still has more sales than the Xbox One but only on a small margin.

-The Xbox One sold over 90 percent of what the PS4 sold in terms of unit sales. The reason why is because of it has a higher price than the PS4