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Oddly enough the technology that got the most interest at Maker Faire was Delta's shower demo of all things. Nerd Stalker's Adolfo Foronda interviews Delta regarding this awesome H2Okinetic® tech, we want.

Nerd Stalker interviews the founder of Embodied AI, Ian Danforth to talk Aliens and the robotic avatar he created that kids and families will love.

Photo Courtesy of Jennifer Morrow How about some robotic latte art? Our Nerd Stalking eye caught some video of great Robot-ware including some science turned Latte Art maker and how robots see the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire . Enjoy the video and if you want a latte art maker, you can build one here ! Thanks Oleskiy!

BERKELEY BOARD – MIDI CONTROLLER CONCEPTS, Nerd Stalker interview at O'reilly Maker Faire. Check out this interesting exercise in UI concepts. From the Berkeley Board site, "the object of building the board is to explore areas of musical instrument design. Isomorphic keyboard : not the key feature, but it takes the notion of ergonomic design in consideration Button (key) position sensors: after looking at piezo and keyboard switches have decided to use CNY70 infrared sensors Balls as keys: allows glissando, a different feel with a full 5/16″ travel Channels : additive logic that allows the left and and right hand to work together. This enables features like modal fabric."

This week Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria discusses their tech picks of the week. Adolfo talks Maker Faire, XBox One, Foc.us, crazy monks and more. Greg aka SocialGreg talks about Maker Faire, Augmented Illusions, Yahoo!, Ethics of 3D Printers and more.

At the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire , we found another great year of interactive specifically in Augmented Reality (AR). Attention gamers out there: One company Technical Illusions is coming out with low cost AR glasses and development solution and guess what? It's open source, well not totally as Rick says " the API's will be open but the behind the scenes will be closed because of various licenses we have ." Check out this video of a couple of these AR hackers disrupting the entry barrier.

Nerd Stalker interviews Michael Oxley, Founder of Foc.us , Foc.us is a headset that passes a small electric current through the prefrontal cortex of the wearer and claims increased performance. We've seen a great deal of interest from biohackers however Michael insists that although there may be other use cases for Foc.us they are squarely targeting gamers. I got to try the foc.us out at the O'reilly Bay Area Maker Faire and was very impressed with the actual sensation I felt across my brain note my odd serious stare is due to the sensation being in effect. I can't speak to increased focus as it was a quick test and not a full use case however we do plan on getting a review unit and giving our readers our thoughts when that happens in July. What we really love about the unit is the price ($249), Michael did say that the unit is aggressively priced on purpose and the fact that they are not seeking additional funding gives the founders the flexibility to make this smart b...

This year the Nerd Stalker gang is excited to again cover the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire. If you missed last year,  here is the Nerd Stalkers Maker posts from 2012. Better yet, order your tickets to the "Greatest Show & Tell On Earth" here .