"All cell phones will come packed with an RFID chip by next summer — giving your phone the possibility of also becoming the keys to your car or house. That was the prediction of Ericsson's vice-president of systems architecture, Håkan Djuphammar, speaking at the company's Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm on Tuesday."

New York Times Book Review noted yesterday the impetus of Iraq and Afghanistan troops coming home with limbs lost to IEDs to drive brain interfaces to artificial limbs.

"The Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 (RP 2009) team developed the first fully integrated prosthetic arm that can be controlled naturally, provide sensory feedback and allows for eight degrees of freedom—a level of control far beyond the current state of the art for prosthetic limbs. Through RICs Neural Engineering Center for Bionic Medicine, several researchers completed limb system includes a virtual environment used for patient training, clinical configuration and to record limb movements and control signals during clinical investigations."

This looks like it was manually compiled; the Pachube model still looks like more of the real thing.

Real time search engine - crawls social networks to find out what people are looking at, sharing right now. The pop culture orientation of the results makes me wonder if social nets just skew young, and shallow? Or is this simply the way the neurosphere crumbles; majority rules?

Is this actually a Microsoft thing? pretty innovative for Redmond...