The Homebrew Mobile Phone Club is a gang of Valleygeeks with a noble goal – they want to produce an open source mobile phone design that will free us all from the tyranny of big-name manufacturers and grasping service providers. Don’t head for Radio Shack yet, though – they’ve only just got a basic prototype of the electronics sorted. But when the time comes, maybe you’ll be able to fund your Tuxphone by recycling your obsolete handsets.

It’s all very well there being electric cars on the market, but there still aren’t many on the roads. As part of the ongoing bid to de-congest the roads (and freshen the air) of London, the first free on-street car-recharging terminals in the world have been installed in the Covent Garden area in the hope of enticing city drivers to make the switch.

Digg this, Digg that – crowdsourcing is the ultimate way to unearth what’s newsworthy. Or at least it would be – if its user-base actually did some real ‘digging’ and checked the facts behind a story (or at least the comments string beneath the post) before giving it the thumbs up. Coincidentally, Hal Finney has some thoughts on the ‘wisdom of crowds’ concept – it looks like the Digg hive-mind experienced an ‘information cascade’.

Technology just keeps getting smaller – if you don’t believe me, ask your grandmother. Computers, phones, cameras, particle accelerators …

We’re all about the future here – there’s a clue in the name, right? So, I present you with what allegedly may become the future of PR and marketing, web2.0 style, in the form of Edelman PR’s prototype iteration of the ‘social media press release’. OK, so it has all the tagging/comments/feeds functionality that the modern multimedia landscape requires, but I remain to be convinced that this is anything more than just PR with widgets.