TED Talks iPhone Application

The quarter-century old nonprofit TED—Technology, Education and Design—just made their mission of spreading innovative ideas easier with their iPhone application. Aggregating the latest audio and video from the TED talks and conferences, the search function sorts through the hundreds of speakers and a bookmarking feature marks favorites. The TED app is free, compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch and available from iTunes.

Personas Online Data Portraits

Gleaning information from the internet and using algorithms to process it, Watching the site in action, with animated words sorting into colors, is almost as compelling as the results, making it a popular part of the "Metropath(ologies)" exhibit currently at the MIT musuem. (Zinman is a PhD student in MIT's Metropath(ologies) Through 13 September 2009 MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue Building N51 Cambridge, MA 02139 …

K-Box Portable Speaker

Adding another dimension to portable music experiences, Kerchoonz's lightweight K-box speakers bring deeper bass response, making for to a spontaneous, on-the-go party-starter. Using patented Gel Audio technology to convert any smooth, solid surface into a giant speaker, the K-box generates an actual increase in the sound—the deeper the surface, the deeper the boom. Seeing it in action proves how nicely the K-Box syncs with any …