Meteorological Data Turned Into Sculptural Music Scores
“Artist Nathalie Miebach extracts weather data from different cities and translates it into functional musical scores which she then uses to create sculptures.” 
PSFK
Meet Booyah’s InCrowd, A Location-Based Second Life
“Touted as part game and part social utility, InCrowd is unique in the LBS space as it goes beyond collecting check-ins and allows users to experience a virtual world corresponding the real world visited in Places. Like a location-based Second Life
, InCrowd app users can create their own customizable avatars, “interact” with old and new friends nearby as well as accumulate status and virtual goods.” 
TechCrunch
Make Custom Electronic Goods Online: Ponoko and Sparkfun Team Up!
“We’re excited to hear that Ponoko, the popular, laser-cutter based, online fabrication system, is teaming up with SparkFun to offer electronic hardware as part of its catalog of materials, allowing makers to create polished, custom electronic products. Touch-sensitive, gps-enabled, music-producing robots that feed your cat come to mind.” 
Core77
The Other Half Of Search: Greplin Is A Personal Search Engine For Your Online Life
“It’s dead simple to use. Sign up and authorize any number of social services for Greplin to index – I signed into Facebook, Twitter and Google Voice to start. After a few minutes of indexing time Greplin then presents you with a Google-like search box. Run a query and find the public and private data you’ve locked away on those sites. Tweets, including DMs, are shown, as well as Facebook messages and Google Voice voicemail transcriptions and SMS. You can also index Gmail, Dropbox, LinkedIn and a bunch of other services. After you use it for the first time you’ll understand that you’ll never not use it again. And there are nice touches like showing real time results as you type. And Greplin only uses OAuth and other APIs for authorization, so they never see your third party site credentials.” 
TechCrunch
The Touchscreen that May Bring iPhone Pen Input One Day
“Hitachi—the inventors of the IPS display technology used in the iPhone 4 and iPad—have developed a new capacitative touchscreen that allows for multitouch input with both fingers and synthetic, non-conductive materials like plastic pens or gloves. The accuracy for a pen 0.031 inches thick on its tip is ±1.0%. That’s only half of a millimeter, which is not bad at all. The design also allows operation through other insulating materials, like natural leather, artificial leather, wool and artificial fiber.” 
Gizmodo
yuri suzuki and oscar diaz: rec & play
“the ‘rec’ pen, draws and records sound on a line. it contains a special ferromagnetic ink, made with the same component used to make old cassette tapes, a recording head and a microphone. the ink is applied to the paper and at the same time the recording head can record the sound
captured by the microphone situated on the top part of the pen. the ‘play’ pen retrieves the sound and plays it back. it contains a red head and a speaker. when the red tape head is moved along the line the previously recorded sound can be heard.” 
Design Boom
Swimsense monitors your aquatic workout
“This watch-sized device is worn on the wrist and uses motion sensing technology to automatically detect and record the number of laps swum, total distance, calories burned, lap time, pace, and stroke count. The device also features automatic stroke recognition and FINIS says it is the first performance monitor in the world that can automatically differentiate between backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and butterfly – although I wonder what it would make of the frenzied thrashing about that passes for my butterfly. The device can be configured for unique pool sizes and calorie calculations can be personalized by specifying gender, weight and age” 
Gizmag
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
