Wearable Tech, Bitcoin, 3D Printing, and Crowdfunding Weekly News (Makerbot, Mt. Gox, Google, more )

Here are what is going on in the Wearable Tech, 3D Printing, Bitcoin, and Crowdfunding areas:

3D Printing

- Is 3D Industry starting to mature? There is a recent story (link here) in 3D Printing Industry that speaks about how Makerbot is halving the price of one of its scanners from $1500 to $750. In November, 3D Systems priced one of its scanners at $400.00. Is there currently or will there be a Dell version of the 3D Industry?

Wearable Tech

- If Google were to have a watch coming out, here are some recommendations. A TechCrunch article is here.


Bitcoin

Oh man, what a week for Bitcoin. And not necessarily in a good way, either. The value of bitcoin (per Coinbase) is $728.00

- Mt. Gox has been shutdown. The Wired story link is here.

- The popularity of Bitcoin is hitting elementary schools. A student did a science project on Bitcoin. The pic is here.

Crowdfunding

For all things crowdfunding, be sure to use #crowdfunding on twitter.