UpNext On The iPad Introduces Fluid Labels For 3D Maps
“As you push the 3D map around with your fingers, labels for specific searches or your friends’ recent Foursquare checkins pop open as they come into view. UpNext calls this the Fluid Labeling System, and you can see it in action in the video above.” 
TechCrunch
Phone app turns mobile into stethoscope to monitor heartbeat
“More than three million doctors have downloaded the iStethoscope application, which enables physicians to monitor their patients’ heartbeats using their smartphones. The patient can email their heart pattern to their doctor to enable them to receive professional assessment of their condition.” 
BBC News
‘Liquid Journals’ Use the Web to Upend Peer Review
“The Liquid Journals platform does not discriminate between peer reviewed and non peer reviewed papers, raw data sets and blog posts. The idea is that smart scientists can decide for themselves what belongs in their own liquid journal, and influential leaders and groups in the movement will organically accrue a readership to their journal according to the quality of the work they select. If that sounds nuts, keep in mind that many have observed that there is little correlation between the judgment of the initial group of peer reviewers for a paper and its ultimate impact.” 
Technology Review
i3Space: Touch And Feel 3D Images
“The “i3Space” requires the viewer to attach a device to their fingertips and then uses the movement of the fingers to calculate the virtual force applied to a 3D image and modify it accordingly.” 
PSFK
akira nakayasu: robotic plant
“his latest project, simply titled ‘plant’, is an interactive installation derived from the vision of grass blowing in the wind. the robotic plant has 169 artificial leaves, which are controlled by using shape memory alloy actuators. each leaf reacts independently to movement such as an approaching hand by moving slowly in the virtual wind.” 
Design Boom
These Vans Can See You Naked With Their Full-Body Scanners
“The Z Backscatter Vans, or ZBVs, as the company calls them, bounce a narrow stream of x-rays off and through nearby objects, and read which ones come back. Absorbed rays indicate dense material such as steel. Scattered rays indicate less-dense objects that can include explosives, drugs, or human bodies. That capability makes them powerful tools for security, law enforcement, and border control.” 
Gizmodo
guuste hilte: tactile texting
“the design can be used by the visually impaired or by anyone looking to text without necessarily seeing the keypad or screen. the small device has a simple white case that is scored with small indentations that allow users to feel their way around, hitting the keys they need. the project is currently a sand alone device that would wirelessly communicate with a mobile, but hilte hopes to see the idea integrated into mobiles in the future.” 
Design Boom
New Nanotech Display Has Pixels Eight Times Smaller Than iPhone 4′s
“Extremely tiny slits cut into very thin metal layers allow different parts of the light spectrum though, with the gaps between the cuts—ranging between 25 and 360 nanometers apart—displaying the red, blue and green light that makes our popular TV shows and internet content come to life. The new technology also does away with the need for the polarizer layer found in today’s screens, making this potentially cheaper to produce.” 
Gizmodo
In-car computing for the luxury set
“That’s the interior of the iBusiness, a bespoke Mercedes S-Class by aftermarket company Brabus. As you can see it’s been tricked out with dual iPads, headrest monitors and a freaking fifth screen that folds out of the ceiling. The iPads control the car’s audio and telephone systems, in addition to the navigation, though that latter feature doesn’t make much sense. There’s a Magic Mouse on the armrest, Bluetooth headsets next to each monitor, and hidden away are a 64 GB iPod and a Mac Mini in the trunk connecting the whole operation.” 
Core77
Harnessing Electricity From Air
“’Using small particles of aluminum phosphate and silica — two particles found commonly in the atmosphere — they showed that in the presence of water vapor silica particles become more negatively charged. Aluminum phosphate grows slightly more positively charged. This building of charges in humid air can accumulate and be transferred to other objects, explaining phenomena like the charge buildup where steam escapes from boilers that had baffled scientists for centuries.’ The team says their study would help in discovering ways to harness electricity right out of thin air to power buildings and to make panels that prevent lightning from striking.” 
PSFK
