So, you’ve built these great ultra-sensitive detectors that can detect tiny photonic emissions in the upper atmosphere. Cool tech for space geeks and physicists, but that’s a small market you have right there. But you say it can detect radioactive emissions in the same way? OK, good – that booming homeland security business may be a good niche for your product.

The DRM/copyright-and-content wars are starting to move to the ‘widely-distributed debate’ stage; an prime indication of this is the fact that a marketing boffin like Steve Rubel is discussing the potential of BitTorrent to act as a legitimate content distribution channel. His argument is that the BT model would fit ‘branded entertainment’ like a glove; one thing’s for sure, the status quo is leaking like a sieve, whatever Hollywood and the music industry claim. You can’t fight the future…Rubel even openly crowd-sourced some of the ideas in this piece.

I’ve been hankering for some wearable computer action for a long time now. This new Linux-powered wearable device is a move in the right direction, but looks a bit clunky, not to mention too aesthetically influenced by Star Trek re-runs. In a few years, I might be able to get an affordable one that doesn’t make me look like the geek I am.

Space – big empty vacuum, nothing in it; a void, an absence of stuff. Right? Well, actually that’s wrong, there’s a very thin amount of gas everywhere. But weird things happen at the edge of the Earth’s magnetic field, where bubbles of superhot gas form and burst continuously, possibly due to the interaction of the solar wind and the magnetosphere.

Considering the power of brand in today’s economy, it’s no surprise that Wired predicts the next product to become nothing but brand is cellular service. MVNOs buy airtime wholesale from staid brands like Sprint or Verizon and resell it to consumers looking for a company that appeals to their lifestyle. Given the abysmal customer service and infuriating marketing practices of most big carriers, I’d jump to an MVNO in a minute if they just focused on treating their customers right.