New Florence. New Renaissance.

"Take it apart"

Popular Science has a gallery of how 10 marvels work - from GPS Navigation to WII Controllers to the monsters that lay underground cables. And the short take off, vertical landing F-35B, the new toy for the Marines.

Global Delivery Model - in Music?

"...software, called eJamming AUDiiO, is able to let musicians collaborate in near real time with musicians halfway across the world. Additionally, the software simultaneously records each musician, combines and synchronizes his or her input, and creates files with CD-quality tracks..."

MIT Technology Review

Think this can improve on current offshore/other remote software development models? Or vice versa take their experiences and improve music?

Small Screen apps

Cellphone banking at Citibank and BofA

On-line check in at Delta and other airlines

Lots of other sites for the small screen

And mail for basic cell phones - no need for a PDA

and we are just at the beginning of the mobile life

Extreme Transparency

There is Justin.tv

Now Hasan.tv goes a bit further in this coverage in Wired Magazine

"So it dawned on him: If being candid about his flights could clear his name, why not be open about everything? "I've discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away,""

If you go to his web site, he shows where is is real-time. He shows what he ate. How much he spent. Specific flights he was on.

Photos of the plane meals and airports he has endured. That probably causes more heart burn than being watched all the time -)

The Fastest Growing Tech companies

Business 2.0 gallery of 25 fastest growing technology companies...some old favorites like Akamai, Apple, Cognizant, Lam, but many new innovators.

Top 100 list is here.

SCRATCH - Coding Made Simple

"The software, (aimed at children), lets you build online programs, including animations, games and interactive artwork, by moving around simple drag-and-drop components."

New Scientist Technology Blog

Link to site with a bunch of most viewed, popular projects

More Indy 500

Last year I wrote about technology at Indy 500

This year, we move to all ethanol

We have it broadcast in HD

More fan games

We get to enjoy the Linux Penguin race around

And the winner gets to enjoy improvements in milk technology

A piece of the sun - at night

"Since August 2005, when visits to an Eritrean village prompted him to research global access to artificial light, Mr. Bent, 49, a former foreign service officer and Houston oilman, has spent $250,000 to develop and manufacture a solar-powered flashlight.

His invention gives up to seven hours of light on a daily solar recharge and can last nearly three years between replacements of three AA batteries costing 80 cents."

"“I find it hard sometimes to explain the scope of the problems in these camps with no light,” Mr. Bent said. “If you’re an environmentalist you think about it in terms of discarded batteries and coal and wood burning and kerosene smoke; if you’re a feminist you think of it in terms of security for women and preventing sexual abuse and violence; if you’re an educator you think about it in terms of helping children and adults study at night.”"

Read more at NY Times

The Boots are made for walking - by themselves

"CabBoots is a concept for an innovative interface with a pedestrian navigation system. The information transmission process can be perceived tactilely, is intuitively understandable, and is applied to the part of the body most directly involved in the act of walking: the foot."

Courtesy of New Scientist

Washable Gadgets

PC Magazine

Washable keyboards, Mobile Phones and more...