Folks over at eatmecrunchy.com have a bowl that keeps your breakfast cereal dry It features a shelf that separates most of the cereal from the milk.
It is amazing to me just when you think things could go any further, someone finds a way to push it into the new. Ceramics has been around for 25,000 years and someone comes up with a new way to do a ceramic bowl.
Not sure how well it cleans up, ‘tho.
thx boingboing
Using a brain-computer interface, folks are able to operate an avatar in Second Life. (Article)
While I don’t think doing simple things with computers via brain waves is all that new, it is cool to see it used in a ‘freely available’ virtual environment populated be all sorts of folks from around the world. (Instead some lonely server tucked away in a research facility.)
While I think this application is in its infancy, we can all agree it demonstrates interesting possibilities.
**Update**
NewWorld Notes has more. Looks like they will continue to push this forward.
**Update II**
Clickable Culture looks at some of the earlier attempts at this sort of thing.
As readers of my blog may know. I travel around Second Life looking at healthcare related sites… I also sometimes wonder what good they might do.
Now I find the Methodist University Hospital has a Virtual Welcome Center that includes maps and videos to familiarize folks with their facilities prior to them visiting. Despite the large-ish learning curve for Second Life, this is the sort of thing it is well suited for.
For example, The Ann Myers Medical Center: 
While not based on an actual hospital, as far as I know, it could introduce people in a number of ways to what goes on within one. If it simulated an actual hospital, it could help inform patients further.
The folks at Topoware have a nice set of dishes lined and labeled in ever increasing amounts. More fun in that they are not in your typical standard cooking measurements.
This is especially topical given recent articles on Brian Wansink’s work on on plate size, portions, and appetite. It seems that the larger the plate, the more one will eat.
I tried out my scope and the audio recording of the SED’s Messier info that I blogged about last week. I really enjoyed it. I especially liked listening the historical descriptions and thinking about folks looking at these things hundreds of years ago.
Many of the audio files are much longer than I thought, but it does keep one at the eye-piece longer (which is usually good.) I have to say that some of it is more than a bit tedious. However, there is enough there that I’ve decided to put them all up.
Because there is a ton of data, I’m keeping it simple on my end…some of the files are broken up so Spokentext can deal with it. And I really didn’t edit the content much. However, I’d never do this if I had to spend a lot of time on the first try. If this idea pans out, it would be worth spending more time.
We’ll put it all into an itunes friendly format and be good to go. For the moment it’s going up in my Spokentext area, later I’ll probably store it on my server…might take a couple o’ days to get it all up and sorted out.
Mark at Spokentext.net has been super helpful.
