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More efficient markets

On: How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different

Creating technology that increases the chance a customer will find a product that matches their needs and allows companies to more precisely find appropriate clients, seems like it should reduce waste and be a benefit for the economy.

Simulation games

On: Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Students?

Games like lunar launder are simple, and illustrate some important principals
An example implementation is here http://lander.dunnbypaul.net/

Radio Beacon

On: US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier

If your going to identify your location to the enemy, there must be cheaper options than a smart phone.

Open graphic card allows specialized innovation

On: Basic Linux Boot On Open Graphics Card

A simple graphic card with an Ethernet port and VNC server would be great for remote installations, especially as it seems you could see the BIOS messages displayed in VGA during system boot.

The next step might be the ability to keep a history of all the VGA pages since the last boot so you could page back through the boot screens and find the problem.

They can do Cartwheels too

On: Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh

I was snorkeling in http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/national_parks/previous_ parks_month/william_bay.html William Bay (on the south coast of Western Australia) when I saw a http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/text-only/blue _ringed_octopus_text_only.htm Blue Ring Octopus with all its legs extended cartwheeling along the sandy bottom, propelled by the swell of the ocean.

Lots of children swim in this bay (I did swimming lessons there) so we caught it and moved it to another location.