The OP is asking what the alpha geeks are doing? Hardware: http://thecrucible.org/kinetics-electronics http://thecrucible.org/kinetics-electronics http://www.

The OP is asking what the alpha geeks are doing? Hardware: http://thecrucible.org/kinetics-electronics http://thecrucible.org/kinetics-electronics http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/004214.php http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/004214.php http://www.arduino.cc/ http://www.arduino.cc/ http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl?c=ACCT88394&sc=2&category=1&search=el%20wire http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl?c=ACCT88394&sc=2&c... Software: Clojure, Haskell, Scala, Any of the NoSQL's, Startups of any variety Go to the Maker's Faire. You'll see a swarm of R2D2 robots, people making scale miniature battleships that shoot 1/4" ball bearings at each other, robot battles, physical pong games that play like the original video game, etc... I strongly disagree with the premise that alpha geeks are doing anything other than what alpha geeks have always done. We're trying to build stuff that makes our friends say, "That's awesome!".