Smart hardware from the streets

The exponential growth of information technologies drove the knowledge and services to be openly available to everyone in large scale that leads to the Internet revolution in the past two decades. In the parallel, the opening up of China lead by the first special economic zone of Shenzhen has further pushed the production to be openly available to everyone. The abundance of open knowledge, services, and production has made Shenzhen the “Silicon Valley of Hardware” and the combined forces are rapidly changing the hardware innovation and entrepreneurship around the world at exponential speed also known as Shenzhen Speed.