Ye Olde Geek Show Draws Thousands– The various historical events which have happened at like events give inspiration to a new generation at the Ye Olde Geek Show in San Mateo, California.
There were about twenty-thousand people in attendance and it was a two-day celebration from Make magazine. Even the infamous ‘Woz’ (of Apple fame) was there talking trash about his opponents.
SAN MATEO, California — A high-tech version of an old county fair brought hundreds of inventors out of their garages this weekend, to show off such innovations as an iPod jukebox, a power-sander-turned-race-car and a vegetable-oil-powered supercomputer.
Make magazine, a quarterly tinker’s journal published by O’Reilly Media, took over the fairgrounds here for a two-day celebration of do-it-yourselfers that placed emphasis on turning spectators into creators.
For those inclined to simply gawk and gee-whiz — and about 20,000 people were so inclined — there were spectacles galore.
On the Segway polo field, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak busily trash-talked his opponents, while just 30 yards away, a geyser of fire shot up intermittently from the top of a fire truck retrofitted into a mobile blacksmith shop.
The various historical events which have happened at like events give inspiration to a new generation at the Ye Olde Geek Show in San Mateo, California. There were about twenty-thousand people in attendance and it was a two-day celebration from Make magazine. Even the infamous ‘Woz’ was there talking trash about his opponents.
Read the whole story here: Wired News: Ye Olde Geek Show Draws ThousandsBy Ryan Singel, Wired News
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