Warm Watts for Wireless Tiny sensors will draw unlimited power from a new type of thermoelectric generator. No more changing batteries with tweezers. By Eric Smalley.
A Better Way to Podcast MyPodder simplifies subscribing to podcasts and downloading them to your portable music player -- and highlights a little-noticed problem of media control that promises to get more acute with time. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
Building a Playground of Light Innovations from NYU's technology program include a digital projector that turns the walls and floor of a therapist's office into an interactive game space. The goal: keeps kids engaged. By Quinn Norton.
Fastest-Growing Plastic Surgeries When fighting the flab results in losing hundreds of pounds, an unwanted byproduct can be reams of excess skin. Cutting away these pounds of flesh is big business for plastic surgeons. From Forbes.com.
Shutterbug or Stalker? Mr. Know-It-All takes on the hot-button question of etiquette in the age of ubiquitous photography. By Clive Thompson from Wired magazine.
ISPs Threaten Price Hikes ISPs are looking to charge consumers and content providers based on data flow. Plus: Supreme Court weighs in on patent injunctions.... Google competitors try new web search approaches.... and more.
NSA News Roundup The government tries to dismiss the EFF suit against AT&T; an intelligence historian predicts corporations will star in the next round of NSA revelations; and a NYT journalist says VP Cheney is behind domestic eavesdropping. In 27B Stroke 6.
