She retired in 1998 from I. Krone, which specialized in product design, including ergonomic designs for things like telephones.
But the software that controls the printers will be open-source and available to all, as will many of the designs for things the printers can make.
It's a trailer for Defcad.com, a search engine for 3D-printable designs for things "institutions and industries have an interest in keeping from us," including "medical devices, drugs, goods, guns".
In fact, one of the core ideas of the IoT is the that devices interact with other devices, not necessarily people; hence the name "Internet of Things", an Internet designed for things, not people.
"Supercomputers weren't designed for things like Web searches, scheduling and database management, but with today's pricing and performance it makes good economic sense," adds Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee professor and cocompiler of the Top 500 list.
He now likens the new marketplace, Zazzy.co, to a "Teespring for 3D printed jewelry" because, like the custom t-shirt platform, Zazzy customers can sell to their followers or even use their designs for things like charity fundraisers.
Microsoft's virtual assistant might soon appear in a whole lot more places — wherever there's a screen and the ability to run Windows 10 IoT Core, the lightweight version of Windows 10 that's designed for things like refrigerators and connected thermostats.
To fuel what is essentially a cold public-relations war between East and West (here given the adorable monikers "Peep-East" and "Wes-Bloc"), the G-men tap into a higher plane and awake with sketched designs for things like lobotomy gas, the Evolution Gun, and weapon BBA-81D.
It's probably much more fun to computer-sketch a sun-dappled, solar-powered pontoon, rather than wade through the slightly more quotidian but well-thumbed and entirely proven Dutch or Danish design manuals for things like segregated cycle lanes, traffic calming, lower speed limits and rebuilt junctions.
