The Innovation Speculation

• WotW
  • Adam C of Onecircuit.com submitted the first workbench of the week submission by video!

http://www.youtube.com/v/EDzBi5mTT4w

• [con't]
  • Bob of Ambientsensors.com took a picture of his bench with his pup, including a signed HP 300A!
  • Lieven Blancke of Belgium submitted two pictures of his 7 year old maker son at their bench. Also included a picture of their recent project.
  • Kevin Smith from the UK sends in pictures of his compact bench (and one in B&W for the old school look). Cool setup!
• Shoutouts
  • Jon Oxer has been dedicated to improving shieldlist.org, even donating Arduinos to others. (Correction: Arduino Proto Shields. Still, very awesome)
• Rants
  • EDN's Hot 100 list could be something cool...if it had any credibility. When all the links are directly to a press release, who believes them?
• Discussion Points
  • Jeri and Mike came up with a new unit of measure. A unit of annoyance known as The Jones.
  • Nice piece on Leo Laporte in the NYT detailing the advertising for all his podcasts on Twit.tv. Chris and Dave are veeeery interested (but not expecting much).
  • IBM released a list of 5 innovations coming in the next 5 years. We don't agree with all of them, but they're not bad! And we're looking forward to 3D holographic technology for user interface design.
  • Speaking of the future, even with the ridiculous amount of data that could some day be stored by spintronics, we'll run out of usable matter for storing data in about 600 years (if we have similar rates of technology advances).