One Phone Number for Life

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/24/google-to-acquire-grand-central-for-50-million/

Their service is actually quite awesome. You get call screening (first time callers have to leave their name) and phone spam filtering, email and/or SMS notifications.

You can route groups of people to different numbers, and disable your home phone during the day.

The WebCall Button is also quite intriguing:

Autism Reversed?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6245742.stm

Leonardo Manuscripts Online

http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/06/eleonardo

Interview Studio

My brother-in-law brought this service to my attention:

http://www.interviewstudio.com/about_us.html

It seems like a great way to facilitate the employment process.

Billboards Look Back

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/eyetracking

"The eyebox2 from xuuk is a palm-size video camera surrounded by infrared light-emitting diodes. It can record eye contact with 15-degree accuracy at a distance of up to 33 feet. A simple glance from a passerby scores an impression, providing a tally that enables new Google-like measurement metrics that real-world advertisers could only dream about until recently."

SD Card with WiFi

"A Secure Digital memory card with built-in Wi-Fi networking will allow digital cameras to upload images automatically to home computers and photo-sharing web sites. This product of California-based company Eye-Fi is currently in beta and should be launched later this year."

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/022249&from=rss

Self-healing Plastic Skin

"Scientists have developed a form of plastic skin that can heal itself when damaged. The material relies on an underlying network of vessels — similar to blood capillaries — that carry a healing agent to areas on the material's surface that sustain damage. Unlike previous self-healing systems that relied on capsules of agent buried in the polymer and which became depleted after one use, the new system can respond to damage at the same point many times over."

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/0227209&from=rss

iTunes Movie Rentals

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b08aba9c-1773-11dc-86d1-000b5df10621.html

Through-the-air Electricity

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6725955.stm

The system exploits "resonance", a phenomenon that causes an object to vibrate when energy of a certain frequency is applied.

When two objects have the same resonance they exchange energy strongly without having an effect on other surrounding objects.

Emryonic Cells from Skin

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070604/full/447618a.html

Cambridge Visual Networks

http://camvine.com/

Windows Mobile 6 iPhone

http://wireless.itworld.com/5021/070605htc/page_1.html

OpenOffice for Mac w/out X11 Now in Alpha

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html

iPhone SDK

A person briefed on Apple’s plans said that at its software developer conference this month, Apple intends to announce that it will make it possible for developers of small programs written for the Macintosh to easily convert them to run on the iPhone.

NYT Article