Tech Podcast 277: High-Tech Ski Treadmills, sOccket, and Pecha Kucha for Haiti

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This is no ordinary soccer ball. It’s called sOccket, and it’s got some tech inside that allows it to store up energy while it’s being kicked around. After 15 minutes, the ball’s stored up enough juice to power an LED light, or even charge up something else. Too cool. In this week’s podcast, we’ll talk to one of the people behind the sOccket. We’ll also hear about a high-tech treadmill for training Swedish skiers, and we’ll “embed” with some folks looking to keep information flowing into and out of Iran. We end with a segment on listeners Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein in Tokyo. They are architects who are trying to crowdsource new design and building ideas for post-earthquake Haiti. Wow.

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Tech Podcast: M-PESA, Y2K10, and Call of Duty

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And…we’re back, ready for a whole new year of fun and frolics on the Tech Podcast. The centerpiece for this episode is a conversation with Tavneet Suri of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Suri, a Kenyan herself, has been studying the impact of the mobile money transfer system called M-PESA on her native country. We’ve also got two items on tech and Iran, some news about a Y2K10 bug in Germany, and some Russians who are riled about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

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Tech Updates on Iran and China, the Codex Sinaiticus, and Hal and the Big 5

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On this week’s podcast, one of the world’s oldest bibles finds a new home online. Also, technology updates on the post-election violence in Iran, and the violence in western China. And we’ll end with a story of global online musical cooperation. Rock on.

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