Bebo's relaunch features "emotion markers" - Cool, Funny, Sorry, or OMG - as an alternative to the like button on FB. Mobile traffic to Bebo has double from 750 million to 1.6 billion pageviews a month.
littleBits is a library of electronic modules (sensors, lights, motors, buttons, etc) that snap together with magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun.
The age of the bifocal is over: a firm called PixelOptics has designed a pair of glasses for which the focal length can be adjusted at the touch of a button. How long until they can do so much more? These glasses — in which a layer liquid crystal is placed inside the lens and, when activated by an electric current, it alters it's refractive properties.