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gaga, polariod and bloomingdales developing sunglasses that record video, camera with built-in computer

So Ferrorama was a popular toy train company that stopped making toys. After noticing interest in second hand trains they challenged Brazilians to build a 20 kilometer train across the countryside, and they did. The reward? The toys are now back in production.

The unit -- the eighth available to advertisers on Facebook -- works by having the brand pose a question on the its Facebook page, aiming for a conversation-starter. That same question will also be posed in a traditional display ad on the right hand side of the Facebook screen. If users choose to respond to the brand's question, the conversation will move into the user's news feed, where it has the opportunity to be commented on by the user's friends.

Apple's performance in the market continues to be stellar, but its performance in the smartphone patent wars-which it had a hand in starting-continues to be mixed, at best. This week, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had another setback, when the full International Trade Commission ruled that Kodak was found to not be infringing Apple's patents. Apple's loss against Kodak comes on the heels of Apple's first real victory in the smartphone battles-a ruling late last week that Android-powered HTC phones infringe two Apple patents.

Like projection mapping but hand drawn.

use your hands to resuscitate the person on the billboard

31 percent of U.S. mobile consumers plan on buying an Android-based smartphone in the next year. Nielsen found that 30 percent of respondents plan to get their hands on an iPhone in the next 12 months. RIM's BlackBerry smartphones and Windows Phone 7-based devices were desired by 11 percent and 6 percent of the respondents, respectively. Surprisingly, 20 percent of those surveyed are still unsure of which smartphone they want to buy.

Red Bull machine design/prototype competition.

Note the insurance damage estimating demo