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Dreams of Flight, their latest in the GE Show series, asks both kids and actual aviation experts what the future of flying might look like. Surprisingly, there are some similarities in their answers, thanks to new developments that GE has in the works.

CHARGE Anywhere is a contactless payment startup that has developed a system where merchants can use the Nexus S to accept NFC payments, hardware can attach to the phone to accept cards

Nike is looking for a new Fellow to open up the company's data and make it more accessible to developers, designers, and activists to create more sustainable solutions. Called the "Code for a Better World Fellowship at Nike" and "will help Nike determine the steps needed to open our sustainability data to communities of data-obsessed programmers, visual designers, and researchers."

Hah wow

saturation of apps with people getting degrees in developing them? 

indie video games with pay what you want model. user can also decide how much of the payment goes as a tip to the company, contribution to charity and money for the developers.

11,500 apps on WP7, 36,000 developers; customers download an average of 12 apps each month. The article also goes into MS's take on Apple/Google inflating their app numbers.

Augmented reality with the 3DS again; they drew the AR marker on a whiteboard. Some of the resulting images are cool.

Cool looking magazine for kids developed for iPad

as connection-mapping tools become more sophisticated, there's a need for new ways of interacting with those maps, going beyond description to exploration. A new iPhone app called * Movies Mobile, developed by the New England Complex Systems Institute, is a preview of such tools. A front end for a network map of IMDB's top 500 movies, it allows people to explore connections among films as researchers might examine pathways of genes or proteins.

projects navigation routes on your windshield.

"Not everything that provides a digital experience needs to be made of digits"

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired, giving them affordable and immediate access to printed words.