I’ve heard that Yahoo and others have started using Titanium as an alternative to AIR and WPF for desktop apps. With Titanium, you’ve got also got an easier port to Mobile too. It’s build on top of Webkit and Google Gears. Similar to AIR, you can develop using standard web technologies: HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby, Python. I’m just starting to check it out for a possible new project. So far, it’s looking pretty darn sick. 

OK, now we’re talking: the future of interfaces, currently on display at SIGGRAPH. Some Augmented-Virtual-Reality and the like. Although it’s not a true hologram, the touchable holography is pretty sweet, and I’m sure it will soon get attention for creative media/marketing applications; interacting with games and/or sports for example. I was excited to see the Augmented Reality for Ordinary Toys. One of my minor beefs with other implementations of AR, was the prep required to make an object recognizable. This solution seems to show any object getting some sort of identity for the system to respond to.I think I like the scratchable input example the best. I tend to like things that start with raw, dynamic data, and then offer the ability to visualize (or realize) this data in any form; plus, I like doing stuff with sound! Just think about all the cool uses for this. As someone else commented, it would be neat to see this done with multiple input devices (instead of 1) so that they could measure the gestures in 2 dimensions.