source article. thanks for the tip, Nick.

As I’ve said before, Bang & Olufsen inspired design at affordable prices is a big opportunity.

Check out the BeoSound 5 digital music system here (coming in March).

And, the Serenata mobile phone (discontinued.)

The shoes have a small generator which generates electricity when walking.  The shoes will potentially be able to power mobile phones or iPhone devices. [source]

Interesting idea, to have a picture connect the dots pass code instead of a standard numbers and letters password.

I’m really sorry to state the obvious in this post. Anybody who has either a black iPod or a black Iphone knows the ugliness of all the finger smudges and smearing that happens when touching the device. How hard would it be to deploy a smear proof coating?

Or, if that’s technically impossible (which I doubt), why not use a matte black color vs. a shiny black (which is more susceptible to finger smudges?).

As Diego, the authority of metacool, wisely illuminates: Matte black is the new black! Certainly a matte black iPhone or Ipod would not show as many smudges, and be just as cool, if not more cool!

Also from the Grand Sierra, a wine tasting machine (in the vein of the Moobella ice cream vending machine and the pizza vending machine).

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Imagine taking a picture with your mobile phone of a product and then having comparison prices and other data (reviews, store locations to buy it etc.) shown on its screen.

that future is near – check out Check Out Smart Shop.

I am also loving Evernote, a digital file cabinet application. Its new iphone app is particularly good – you can take pictures (white board, signs, scans etc) and word recognition software allows the text within images to be indexed and searchable. Also, it has a voice memo function, which is something I’ve missed on the iphone prior to this point.

Evernote would be the ultimate killer app if it also integrated with Amazon’s Kindle, so my notes and highlights on the kindle are also indexed and searchable. Amazon should acquire Evernote simply for this functionality.

PlantSense, which just raised a $3.5 million first round, makes soil sensors that collect data about the soil, and then makes suggestions for what you can grow.

[source: computerworld]