IBM Preps Carbon Transistors for Post-Silicon Era
“The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors predicts that the silicon-based CMOS transistor technology used by microchips today will run out of steam by the end of the decade, but IBM Research (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) has a ready replacement already on the drawing board: carbon-based transistors.” 
Smarter Technology
Turn Your Monitor Into a Touchscreen That Can Detect 16 Fingers, Using a Polymer Film
“It’s not just glass that Displax is claiming their film will work with—apparently plastic and wood can be made into an interactive screen, which will detect as many as 16 fingers making shapes on its surface and even recognize when someone is blowing across it.” 
Gizmodo
YouMe: Control Real People In Real Time
“The service will let users (”Yous”) control real people (”Mes”) in real time. Yous give instructions to the Mes via bluetooth headset or text message, and the Mes escapades are captured by video camera and streamed live. Almost anything is game as far as requests, barring illegal or sexual activity.” 
PSFK
Waldemeyer outfits Imogen Heap’s Twitter dress at the Grammys
“When Imogen walked the red carpet to collect her Grammy, fans could send messages and photographs directly to her dress. The messages scrolled across the collar while the images were displayed on her Fendi handbag. How does it work? The Fendi bag contains an iPod Touch that receives the messages (thanks to Memo Akten for programming this). It displays the pictures and passes the text on to a flexible LED display in the collar.” 
Make
Pyxis OS, an operating system for Arduino
“Based around the Arduino hardware platform, it adds some pretty impressive features, such as the ability to run programs from an SD card, read/write to a FAT filesystem, and easily display graphics and GUI elements on a color LCD. It looks like it could be lots of fun to play with, and if you want to peer under the hood, a great way to learn how to build complex systems on tiny microcontrollers.” 
Make
Intelligent Home Energy Management by Intel & IDEO
“Developed in partnership with IDEO, the system features a large Hello/Goodbye switch on the top of the device which activates pre-arranged settings to help the users save energy and money. Wireless outlet sensors feed energy usage data to the dashboard, which also acts as a centralized home information center, monitoring security systems, package tracking, home maintenance and more. ” 
MOCOLOCO
An Augmented (Hyper)Reality
“Keiichi comments below on some of the issues he was attempting address: media intrusion, tech-dependence etc. “It is,” he writes, “like most sci-fi, a critique of the present rather than the future.”" 
Creative Review
Making Digital Content on the Mobile Phone Physically Graspable
“The weight-shifting method allows a phone to communicate to users where to walk by dynamically changing its gravitational center along two axes. The shape-changing method is able to convey where more information is located outside of the screen by changing the thickness of a phone at its corners. And lastly, the ‘living‘ method allows a mobile phone to display emotional states due to a continuous heartbeat and breathing-like motion that can be felt ambiently in your trouser pocket.” 
information aesthetics
Nuvo’s Ritmo is an advanced sound system for the next iPod generation
“Stretching a pair of headphones over an ever-increasing belly can be a little challenging – so if you think you are housing a budding child genius – or music critic – the Ritmo could be just what you need. It’s a soft and stretchable fabric belt that attaches to your MP3 player and provides listening pleasure for both you and your little one.” 
Gizmag
ClientShow Debuts Realtime Collaboration App For Creative Pitches
“The application, which is built on Adobe Air, includes a dashboard which lets the agency view client lists, projects and pitch sessions at a single glance. The dashboard acts as an organizational launching pad, where you can see attached notes and images about upcoming pitches and a schedule of sessions. The second feature is a “work” section which actually lets you set up and prepare for the sessions. You can drag and drop your files into the application, where you can view the projects. To engage in a virtual “pitch,”clients are given a link that lets them view the session in their browser. While the users who are pitching the idea are using an Adobe Air application, the client will see the actual pitch within their browser. Here’s where ClientShow brings in the collaboration angle: as you are pitching an idea, decision makers on a client team can approve (or dismiss) different ideas and files and give feedback automatically by adding notes and comments to the pitch that are updated in realtime.” 
TechCrunch
