"Twuition is like your personal assistant on Twitter. Want to know the temperature in Miami? Ask Twuition. Or the nearest location of a business? Twuition to the rescue. Here's how it works: Type in the appropriate hashtag (ie: twuitionweather, cityname), and @twuition will respond to you with the answer. There are currently four or five hashtags being serviced that include weather, locations, product pricing and a couple of others"

I could see this kind of service evolving into the backend of an easily-accessible app in the future. The @replies-through-twitter method that a few services are starting to implement lately is kind of clunky right now but I'm sure someone will put a nice interface around it soon.

"The MTA took an important step toward improving the rider experience today, announcing that the agency will open its route and schedule data to third party software developers. The policy change -- a major turnaround -- promises to take some of the guesswork out of riding MTA buses, subways, and commuter trains. The agency's new policy does away with time-consuming data-sharing procedures and burdensome licensing requirements. As of today, schedule, route and fare information are available directly from the MTA website in a standard format, and the data will be updated whenever service changes. Similar set-ups have allowed developers to create scores of transit applications for cell phones and web browsers in other cities, giving riders convenient access to up-to-date information."

"This could be the future of American education, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The Quest to Learn school opened last September in Manhattan, welcoming the first class of sixth-graders who will learn almost entirely through videogame-inspired activities, an educational strategy geared to keep kids engaged and prepare them for high-tech careers."

"Jeff Jones and Andrew Adamatzky, specialists in unconventional computing at the University of the West of England in Bristol, wondered if biology could provide an alternative to conventional road planning methods. To find out, they created templates of the UK using a sheet of agar on which they marked out the nine most populous cities, excluding London, with oat flakes. Then, in the place of London, the pair introduced a colony of P. polycephalum, which feeds by spawning tendrils to reach nutrients, and recorded the colony's feeding activity (see picture). Most of the resulting "maps" mimicked the real inter-city road network, but some offered new routes."

 

With 3D being integrated into dedicated network channels and dedicated television sets, I'm kind of wondering how hilarious the first iterations of our new 3D-compatible eyewear will be. Can't wait to see someone wearing the above while watching the highly anticipated Tribute To Nickelback: Band of The Decade.

 

"Photosounder is a software package that processes image data as sound values. Making use of various spectrograph and filtering algorithms, Photosounder extracts interesting musical experiences from photography in a process that approaches synesthesia; the video below illustrates some results."

Someone is going to do something fascinatingly clever with Photosounder. This will probably begin with a well-composed track built from a long, scrolling image, but is sure to evolve into something even more interesting. I like flylyf's idea: "I can see people creating art pieces that sing, maybe hide messages in photographs or art work."

This even sheds some insight on how to approach audio-visual synesthesia, something we're just beginning to understand.