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    #27: Designing Hardware is Insanely Difficult

    July 14th, 2017 · 51 minutes

    Hardware designer Matt Webb joins the show to discuss why it’s so difficult to design great physical products, how our expectations have changed recently, and why he loves wearing his Snapchat Spectacles to cricket matches.

    Guest Starring: Matt Webb

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    Links and Show Notes

    The Art of Captaincy: Amazon.co.uk: Mike Brearley, Sam Mendes: 9780752261843: Books
    The Guardian: The smart tech startup helping restaurants cut food waste by 50%
    The Oval
    Beer snake
    TechCrunch: Amazon’s latest service helps you set up your Alexa-powered smart home
    Thread networking protocol for Internet of Things
    Spectacles by Snap Inc.
    Matt Webb at interconnected.org
    Matt Webb (@genmon) on Twitter