2008 IDEA Design Award Winners

The IDSA has announced their [2008 Design Award Winners](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0717_idea_winners/index.htm), with BusinessWeek. Some of my favorites: * [a digital camera for visually impaired people](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0717_idea_winners/31.htm) * [a cable connector that allows audio input or output from any of six jacks](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0717_idea_winners/38.htm) * [a 4-channel mixer that records directly to an iPod](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0717_idea_winners/44.htm) * [a foldable mp3 player](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0717_idea_winners/68.htm) * [a…more

Sliding Liberia – “A story of war, peace, and surfing”. Looks great.

Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno on the future…in 1993 – “15 years ago some of these predictions were far more outrageous than today, and some are more outrageous today than back then.” Sounds like a fun thing to do with friends.

Yvon Choinard on fly fishing (video) – “You have to look at a river and be able to read a river like a rock climber reads a rock…[and] match that with the right fly. It’s not about catching fish, it’s all about adapting yourself to where you’re worthy of catching the fish. It’s not about…more

Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto? – good intro into Google’s work in Africa, and Nairobi specifically.

You can now add items from any web site to your Amazon wish list. It’s already where I look first for most things anyway. Now, if they’d only improve the wish list UI itself, it’d be perfect.

The new Radiohead video was made without cameras–just laser-traced 3d data. Try the viewer they used to do the “filming”, and imagine movies made this way–you could choose where in the movie’s world you wanted to view from!

Air pollution helium balloon – like an ambient orb for the entire city. Try ignoring that!