Maker Faire: two hundred projects - Reuters

Into In Rome, until October 6, the first European edition of the event that presents the best inventions of the world’s technological creativity

Into “I have invented a test for the diagnosis of tumors of the pancreas which is by far the cheaper, faster and less invasive that there is on the market. Furthermore, it was shown that the life expectancy, thanks to my system, are greatly increased. ” To speak is not a luminary who has spent his life in the laboratory but Jack Andraka, a researcher-boy 16 years of age – he was 14 when he had this idea – with the fringe on the eyes and a pronounced American slang. It is the winner of one of the latest editions of the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which, together with the other award-winning, Ionut Budisteanu, a seventeen year old Romanian who has developed a low-cost system that allows a machine to move by itself in the middle to traffic, wandering around the halls of the Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome.

Into Italy, in fact, these days is hosting the first edition of the European Maker Faire , an event organized so far exclusively in the United States. “We chose to bring Maker Faire in Europe – said Staci Palmer, Director, Global Marketing and Strategic Initiatives (GSIM), Corporate Affairs Group, Intel – because Intel makes its entry in Arduino (the community of reference for the” makers, ed ) announcing the birth of a new platform of hardware and software development, Galileo, based on the new system on a chip (SoC).

Into But mainly because we want to continue to invest in technology in Europe, to put in the hands of young people the opportunity to create the future. ” Today will begin workshops, exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations, a show curated by Massimo Banzi and Richard Moon and will be held until 6 October, which will be presented in more than 200 projects designed by the most creative minds of the “makers” of the whole world.

Into From digital eyeglasses with which you can record video in what you look at 3D printer, folding and energy-efficient, which puts it in a briefcase. And if the coffee machine can now be operated via Facebook, a printer will be able to carry out the surgical template used for dental implantology, free ideas is the watchword for the Makers Movement, so that they can be shared but also improved by all.

Into Someone has already spoken of a new industrial revolution and, although it is still difficult to measure the social impact of this wave of technological and creative energy that is poured on the capital, the impression one gets from walking through the inventions of Leonardo these twenty-first century is to walk in the hall of the future.