Continuum ~ Mary Huang's Draw-Your-Dress app

Slashdot points to ecouterre article by Jasmin Chua on Continuum: An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Made-to-Measure Dress...

Continuum Ddress UI from Mary Huang on Vimeo.

I Love Disco! ~ Celebrating a Lovely-Great Genre!

Disco is totally underappreciated! Check out these lovely compilations of top hits, almost every one a personal favorite...

Personal Airbag ~ Hövding Collar Headguardian!

Darren Quick in Gizmag writes Hövding airbag collar protects the head and eliminates helmet hair... Plus see the crash test dummy get the treatment...

Wing-Suited ~ Jeb Corliss Living Dangerously!

Holy wing suits, Batman! Jeb Corliss lives at threshold...

Custom Earbuds ~ Etymotics @ Apple on WSJ...

Thanks to MIT alumco Lantos co-founder Shahid Azim for spotting this WSJournal piece by Courtney Banks on Etymotic's Noise-Isolating Earphones. The mass-personalization of such essential wearables is an emerging super-movement...

Minimal Surgery ~ Keyholes + Robots + Imaging

This story spotted by BID's CEO Paul Levy about single-incision laparoscopic colectomy featuring surgeon Dr Deborah Nagle... ...has gotten me thinking more generally about the history and prospective future of Minimal Surgeries. Perhaps the first example of this I personally saw was out at Stanford when founder and then-CEO Dr Wes Sterman showing Heartport's method of doing chest keyhole surgeries without cracking the ribcage. Tufts chief neurosurgeon Dr Carl Heilman visited MIT for an IEEE/BMES series and showed remarkable examples of natural orifice procedures for brain surgery. (See here a USAToday piece on this theme more generally.) Then most recently, Conor Walsh and MIT colleagues have been collaborating with MGH radiologist Dr Rajiv Gupta to build the Robopsy image-guided robo-assisted tele-surgery tool. See here the first working demo on a living, breathing porcine patient...

Tracking Taxis ~ Chronological Urban Heatmap

Thanks to Aid Watch development economist William Easterly's piece Miracles of spontaneous order: where to get a cab around NYU for pointing to this lovely NYTimes infographic on Tracking Taxi Flow Across the City! With data provided by Sense Networks mashed up on Google's map, Matthew Bloch, Ford Fessenden, and Shan Carter create this interactive heatmap showing taxicabs over time...