NSA spying

I just read this article on the NSA spying on people costing American Technology companies billions of dollars.  I wonder how Snowden feels about what he started and how this will affect his life.  Do you think he is happy living in Russia?  I don't agree to the loss of our freedom of speech or invasion of our privacy but I can't imagine selling my country out. 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-26/nsa-spying-risks-35-billion-in-u-s-technology-sales.html

3D printing

        
              

I find the 3d printers to be fascinating.  Some of the things that people have been printing up is really cool. There seems to be no limit to the things you can make.  Last night on Grey's Anatomy they were printing body organs, is that what our future will be?  Will we be able to make body parts with 3D printers to use for saving someones life?  What about pacemaker's?  Will people still use them?  There has even been a gun made out of metal and it actually works.  Another fascinating article I read was about a 3D car, amazing technology.

   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/science_museum_3d_printing_exhibition/

  
 http://hackaday.com/2013/11/08/why-you-shouldnt-care-about-the-all-metal-3d-printed-gun/    

    
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/3d-printed-car/

Automatic Home Network

An interesting article today in Theregister.com.  Apple has been granted a patent for technology that will detect movement around the home and automatically change the settings of light switches or other household devices.  It will even turn on your oven at a specified time to preheat for dinner. We already have thermostats that work that way so it shouldn't take long to design a system to operate your entire house.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/06/apple_patents_ihome_of_the_future/

This is not a picture of it, they have just been granted a patent, but who knows how theirs will look when they complete the designing of it.