Innovative Designs

Design is everything:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130325-folding-phone-charger-plugs-a-gap

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130318-radical-camera-goes-back-in-time

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130319-updating-the-humble-eggbox-design

Good JavaScript Book

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.   Learn more about it @ http://git-scm.com/

Robotic Jellyfish

Design is Everything:

http://inhabitat.com/ph-conditioner-floating-jellyfish-skyscrapers-combat-air-pollution-while-producing-fresh-water/ph-conditioner-skyscraper-evolo-2013-2/?extend=1

Robot Baby

http://www.engineeringontheedge.com/2013/01/robot-baby-makes-video-debut/

Underwater Bowling Game

An addictive game:

http://ak.imgag.com/imgag/product/full/ap/3040935/graphic1.swf

Rapyuta

Rapyuta is an online "brain" that describes objects robots have encountered and also carries out complicated computation on behalf of those robots.  European scientists that created it hope it will make robots cheaper as they will not need all their processing power on-board.

The Rapyuta database is part of the Robo Earth project that began in 2011 with the hope of standardising the way robots perceive the human world.

Check out the BBC report @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21714191 and the Rapyuta home page @ http://rapyuta.org/rapyuta-the-roboearth-cloud-engine.

PortableApps

PortableApps.com is the world's most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any portable storage device (USB flash drive, iPod, memory card, portable hard drive, etc).

With millions of users all over the world and a full collection of open source software (as well as freeware and commercial software), PortableApps.com is the most complete solution for life on the go.

Cascading

Cascading is a Java application framework that enables quick and easy development of rich Data Analytics and Data Management applications that  work seamlessly with Apache Hadoop 1.0 and API compatible distributions.

Learn more about it @ http://www.cascading.org/about/