Digispark - The tiny, Arduino enabled, usb dev board

A kickstarter project :

 $12 target price   5,964 backers

$53 per backer  $313,218 pledged of $5,000 goal

Lapka turns your iPhone into an environmental monitoring station

$220 for the set of 4 sensors (temperature, humidity, EMF, radiation, food organiticity).

Sen.se: Feel. Act. Make sense. By Rafi Haladjian.

web site

demo

LEGO Custom: Raspberry Pi Case Kit, £13.95

MIT students reveal PopFab, a 3D printer that fits inside a briefcase

The future is coming, in the form of internet-controlled IPv6 power outlets

Pulse Phone app has its finger on the pulse

http://www.gizmag.com/pulse-phone-heart-rate-app/16962/

HemoGlobe device works with a smartphone to detect anemia

Twine: Listen to your world, talk to the Internet

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-listen-to-your-world-talk-to-the-internet

How riot rumours spread on Twitter

Analysis of 2.6 million tweets shows Twitter is adept at correcting misinformation - particularly if the claim is that a tiger is on the loose in Primrose Hill.