《Arduino+Android互动智作》是作者Simon Monk在Arduino应用上的又一次跨越，他采用12个示例项目成功地向读者们展示了如何将Arduino和Android结合起来，以完成许多单靠Arduino或者Android根本无法完成的任务。 对于Arduino爱好者而言，可以通过对本书的学习将Android设备的触摸屏变成一个非常完美的人机交互界面，并且从原本“硬”的方向展开对“软”的探索。而对于Android开发者而言，本书则扩展并丰富了Android系统应用的想象空间，将单纯的人机交互扩展到Android设备与各种传感器的交互。 《Arduino+Android互动智作》适合广大“创客”和电子爱好者自学、培训，也可作为高等院校相关专业及电子设计（制作）大赛的教学用书。

"Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New forms of design and manufacture are appearing that lack historical precedent, he writes; but the production methods, using archaic forms of energy and materials that are finite and toxic, are not sustainable. The future will see a new kind of object;we have the primitive forms of them now in our pockets and briefcases: user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable;that will be sustainable, enhanceable, and uniquely identifiable. Sterling coins the term "spime" for them, these future manufactured objects with informational support so extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Spimes are designed on screens, fabricated by digital means, and precisely tracked through space and time. They are made of substances that can be folded back into the production stream of future spimes, challenging all of us to become involved in their production. Spimes are coming, says Sterling. We will need these objects in order to live; we won't be able to surrender their advantages without awful consequences.The vision of Shaping Things is given material form by the intricate design of Lorraine Wild. Shaping Things is for designers and thinkers, engineers and scientists, entrepreneurs and financiers;and anyone who wants to understand and be part of the process of technosocial transformation.

在这本书中，《第三次工业革命》作者杰里米•里夫金开创性地探讨了极致生产力、协同共享、产消者、生物圈生活方式等全新的概念，详细地描述了数以百万计的人生产和生活模式的转变。他认为，“产消者”正在以近乎零成本的方式制作并分享自己的信息、娱乐、绿色能源和3D打印产品。他们也通过社交媒体、租赁商、合作组织以极低或零成本的模式分享汽车、住房、服装和其他物品；学生更多地参与到基于零成本模式的开放式网络课程…… 作者敏锐地察觉到，从生产力发展上来看，第三次工业革命的贡献很可能远远超过第一次和第二次工业革命。数十亿人和数百万组织连接到物联网，从而使人类能以一种从前无法想象的方式，在全球协同共享中分享其经济生活。这个连通性转折点的重要意义甚至有可能超过20世纪电气化所带来的经济变革，以及随之产生的电话、广播和电视的传播。 里夫金分析认为，在数字化经济中，社会资本和金融资本同样重要，使用权胜过了所有权，可持续性取代消费主义，合作压倒了竞争， “交换价值”被 “共享价值”取代。他甚至预言，“零成本”现象孕育着一种新的混合式经济模式，这将对社会产生深远的影响。零边际成本、协同共享将会给主导人类生产发展的经济模式带来颠覆性的转变，我们正在迈入一个超脱于市场的全新经济领域。