The concept of Open Hardware arrived even on the Economist’s pages too.

Companies, for their part, say an open approach can help them get to market quickly with products that give customers what they want—without the need for market research. Such advantages, they say, outweigh the drawbacks of exposing what are usually seen as corporate secrets.

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Tags: Economy, Open Hardware

One of the key point of Open P2P Design is that the designer/s should become an enabler of the creativity that lays in a community/system. I will write something more about this theme in the future (a very long post is under construction), but for the moment I’d like to suggest you a brief [...]

Tags: Enabler, Generative system, Locality, Product Design

The news of the publication of VIA OpenBook’s CAD files has spread rapidly in the web. It is worth now to read some thoughts and quotes that Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation published in the Foundation Blog.
Citing various sources, Bauwens notices how the openness of this project is actually very limited (CAD files relate solely [...]

Tags: Open Hardware, Product Design, Technology