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> I've had much more luck and a hell of a lot more fun traipsing around Guangdong and dabbling in manufacturing. Now that sounds fascinating. Maybe you could s
by shiranaihito 17y ago
> I've had much more luck and a hell of a lot more fun traipsing around Guangdong and dabbling in manufacturing.
Now that sounds fascinating. Maybe you could share some details on that?
- oldgregg 17y agoWe had been doing some pretty standard manufacturing stuff for the publishing industry so when we went to build out a new office we decided to do it ourselves. Visited factories for furniture, electronics, marble, fixtures... Everything custom made and dropped in a few containers. Definitely cheaper than if we had gotten everything locally, and although it did take some time, the process was a fun cross cultural adventure. I haven't done any projects like this, but I think the next big thing is going to be random iphone/bluetooth devices. Imagine any kind of small object and add low power internet access over bluetooth to it... whole new world of opportunities... Random stuff, like take this object and make all the data available on your iphone... http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/car/aa31/ http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/car/aa31/
- shiranaihito 17y agoI heard you have to keep a very close eye on your containers in China though. But yeah, sounds cool!