The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution

Data protection: firesafe that lets you use bus-powered drives without opening it

Sheer brilliance – a bus powered drive goes inside, and you plug it into a computer on the outside and use it. In the event of a fire, your computer melts, but not the drive.

Would be a ton more useful with half a dozen USB connectors or some facility for moving power inside too, but even for one drive this is a very smart object indeed.

Recording broadcast quality interviews using Skype. No, really!

Bruce Sterling on a forensic camera with inbuilt crypto

Zoom H2 quadraphonic four microphone / four track audio interview recording trick

NGO In a box

expanding goop for cracking rock

Pure brilliance

Lazyweb, I also want a Solar Energy Diode

Lazyweb I want a solar powered USB jack

Etymotic ER-20 – Cheap Musician’s Ear Plugs – $12 a pair, good tech, recommended.