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Contextual Electronics is up and running! You can still join in the "audit" tier, if interested.
Chinese New Year is coming, affecting production for many electronics companies.
Dave enjoyed the NSA gadget catalog (even though Chris and Greg Charvat talked about it 3 episodes ago!). It reminds Dave of the movie "Enemy of the State".
Dave's kickstarter is starting to ship out. In fact, his next round of boards is at the assembly house, run by a project backer/EEVblog fan.
Chris is super jazzed about the beta version of Circuit Hub Fabrication.
Dave got one of the first uArm Robots! Looks like a fun new gadget! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4V1xPHL804
The cost of testing can impact the overall price of your project. Designing with decent tolerance parts can help remove the need to (extensively) test.
Google bought Nest for $3.2B. What the hell?
Nest actually acts as a wifi host in order to configure getting it onto your home network. New devices aim to be "point and connect".
Wiki paged containing a list of companies Google has bought. Nest was the second biggest behind Motorola Mobility, the cellphone division (for $12.5B)
Is this all just a money scheme for big VCs? It's crazy to think how much money is pushed around. And that's not all...CEOs in silicon valley conspired to keep wages down.
Dilbert attempts to explain why wages stagnate.
The new film Jobs was a bit of an dramatic exaggeration. Woz spoke out about it on Google+. He's also working on a script of the events from his perspective.

Thanks to Alpha for the picture of the cuckoo clocks

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