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links for 2009-10-30

• Intellectual Ventures Lab » the Stratoshield
  An idea from Nathan Myhrvold's company. I love the scale, and the optimism.
  (tags: science)

links for 2009-10-23

• The Coming Creativity Boom - Forbes.com
  A bit of optimism from George Gilder. A year old, but still rings true to me.
  (tags: startup)
• WiFi Body Scale
  A wifi-connected weight scale: step on it and your weight info is uploaded to the internet automatically. Cool.
  (tags: cool health)

links for 2009-10-22

• Web 2.0: PayPal wants payment apps in your phone and fridge with its new platform
  (tags: startup)
• SparkFun Electronics - WiFly GSX 802.11b/g Serial Module - Roving Networks
  Tiny, low-power wifi hardware. Connect this to a color LCD and you have a wifi-connected watch.
  (tags: diy)
• SparkFun Electronics - Color LCD 128x128 Nokia Knock-Off
  I could use this part to build my iPhone bluetooth-connected watch. Just gotta find the bluetooth parts, etc.
  (tags: diy watch)

links for 2009-10-20

• Nvidia’s new Cloud 3D platform
  One of the new baseline assumptions for next-generation games. It's worth thinking about games designed with access to limitless processing and storage. Games that were impossible "CPU hogs" are becoming viable.
  (tags: games)
• Opinion Space 2.0
  Cool Berkeley project to place users in an "Opinion Space" based on a simple Q&A
  (tags: cool)

links for 2009-10-15

• Electronic Arts exec says social gaming bubble resembles mobile games hype | VentureBeat
  (tags: games)

links for 2009-10-13

• Sony - BRAVIA XBR 52" Class / 1080p / 240Hz / LCD HDTV - KDL-52XBR9
  (tags: cool)
• Factual wants to be the center of the web's open data
  Open Source repositories for facts. Cool. The Internet ensured that we're all connected. Next, all the world's data will be online.

  Transparent Society, here we come.

  
  
  (tags: cool)
  
  

links for 2009-10-11

• 16 Top Augmented Reality Business Models
  (tags: startup)

links for 2009-10-10

• Google PowerMeter's first device partner
  Not great news for Lucid
• Mapping History
  This guy is onto the idea of building historical maps. Required for my "TimeWalk" idea.
• Health 2.0: two dozen of the most innovative new health apps | VentureBeat
  (tags: health)

links for 2009-10-09

• From CTIA: The rise of open mobile
  Glad to see this: "operators [are] losing their dominant gravity in mobile, and the “off-deck” or “open mobile” model is exploding as the next key wave in mobile"
  (tags: mobile)

links for 2009-10-08

• Rails in the Cloud | Ruby Support | Engine Yard