Cool Toys
Conversations
by PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies
Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries
June 2009

Productivity & Personal

Petrofix
 http://petrofix.com/

Twivaways
 http://www.twivaways.com/

TwoQuick
 http://www.twoquick.com/

Posterous
 http://www.posterous.com/

Hey! Paste It
 http://www.heypasteit.com/

Gadgets & Geeks

Mozy
 http://www.mozy.com/

Talkr
 http://www.talkr.com/

WordOff
 http://www.wordoff.org/

SpyOnWeb
 http://www.spyonweb.com

RobTex
 http://www.robtex.com

Random
 http://www.random.org/

Pulse
 http://www.livescribe.com/

Google Mobile
 http://www.google.com/mobile/

GeoDome
 http://www.geodome.info/

Academic & Education

VideoLectures
 http://www.videolectures.net/

MIT Open Courseware:
Flickr
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mitopencours
eware/sets/

SIRS Researcher
 http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-portal-res?
id=S1590125-0-2504

VisionMapper
 http://www.visionmapper.org.uk/

SmartHistory
 http://www.smarthistory.org/

WolframAlpha
 http://www.wolframalpha.com/

PubFeed
 http://pubfeed.cs.toronto.edu/

PhotoPeach
 http://photopeach.com/
 http://photopeach.com/album/7e7usn

Graphics / Visual / Visualization

Vimeo: Swan Lake Zeno Music
Visualiser
 http://www.vimeo.com/2027825?pg=embed&sec=2027825

Your Flowing Data
 http://your.flowingdata.com/
 http://flowingdata.com/2009/03/10/yourflowingdata-
collect-data-about-yourself-via-twitter/

Pattern Cooler
 http://www.patterncooler.com/

Pixlr
 http://www.pixlr.com/

Health & Science

Health Action Now
 http://www.healthactionnow.org/Default.aspx

WorldMapper
 http://www.worldmapper.org/

FluTracker
 http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/

TripAnswers
 http://www.tripanswers.org/

TweetPsych
 http://www.tweetpsych.com/

Pink @ the Polls
 http://www.pinkatthepolls.org/site.php

ChefMD
 http://www.chefmd.com/

SigntificLab
 http://play.signtific.org/

SCIgen
 http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Writing

SMOG – Simple Measure of
Gobbledygook
 http://www.harrymclaughlin.com/SMOG.htm
 http://www.wordscount.info/

Twyric
 http://twyric.com/

Trapeze / Poster Experience
 http://posterexperience.com/

Other Ideas

Open Source Grid/ OSGrid
 http://www.osgrid.org/

You Are the Model
 http://www.youarethemodel.com/

Serve
 http://www.serve.gov/