In the vein of TED videos - you must check out this excellent selection of videos from the Gadgetoff conference - click here for full selection.

3 representational videos below of Tony Tether, the Director of DARPA, Luke Williams of frog design, and Marvin Minsky of MIT:

This is funny.

WooMe is now open to the world. Check out this video!

In a twist related to my previous post about PrevYou here (link), a social shopping platform, an Austin, Texas-based site ShangBy (link) has an unconventional way for you to shop in Shanghai, where prices for luxury goods can be significantly cheaper than in the U.S., by allowing you to shop virtually via a camera following a Swedish guide in Shanghai! As a ShangBuyer, you tell them what items to zoom in on, which products Nina should try on, what questions to ask the merchants, and which products you’d like to buy. Now here’s actually a potential reason for justin.tv’s technology!

[thanks, VentureBeat]

This is cool!

My friend Alex von Oech is working to develop a revolutionary travel focused search solution. The beta will be launched at the end of October.

Be sure to check out Alex’s blog at Kango here.

TechCruch has profiled Taigate, a London-based company developing e-commerce functional banner ads (link here).

Tailgate link here.

This is an intriguing concept. Imagine if the banners offered really compelling e-commerce offerings - not simply in terms of serving product offerings that can target segmented users, but also through innovative, engaging ecommerce methods such as a reverse auction, or a countdown clock with a deal so good, it’s only available for 45 seconds, and then a different product selection is served, and the countdown starts again.

In addition, think of the implications of this idea in the emerging Widget economies - if widgets develop fully functional ecommerce solutions, which offer one click shopping, without leaving the host platform, that could be incredibly powerful.

Interesting glimpse into a possible digital future…

[thanks, Duncan Riley]

Imagine a virtual world that is identical to the real world. Virtual Sphere has developed a locomotion sphere wherein users can move through a virtual space, as they would in real life.

I’ve already posted a video demo of tabletop technology, which relates to the recent announcement at D, which has been covered extensively elsewhere.

Engadget roundup here.

TechCrunch profile here.

Video demo here.

Now imagine if the table display integrated 3d holographic display technology like SeeReal Technologies is developing. So, you could essentially navigate and compute in a 3D space with your hands. Now imagine if this technology integrated seamless voice recognition and gesture recognition technology too. That would be a killer-app.