links for 2008-9-16

• Swype, Truly Gesture-based Data Entry [Techcrunch]
  Swype is an amazing gesture-based data entry system that truly blew our collective minds at TC, CG, and MC. To type, you simply connect letters together using a stylus or finger and predictive text to pick letters and words out of seemingly unintelligible squiggles.
  (tags: innovation gesture)
• MySpace Music Already Has Revenue Locked, May Raise Outside Capital At $2 Billion Valuation [Techcrunch
  Get ready for MySpace Music</a>, because you are going to be hearing a lot about it over the next couple of weeks as it prepares for launch.
  (tags: social music myspace funding)
• HTC Touch 3G product page spotted [Techcrunch]
  Hand-in-hand with the HTC Touch HD page spotted earlier, the product page for the equally unannounced HTC Touch 3G has also made its way into the public view. It’s packed with visual goodies and specs, so check it out…
  (tags: mobile touch)
• You’ll Need The Gas Savings With Mercedes’ $100K Hybrid [Wired]
  Ten years after Toyota and Honda introduced hybrids to the world, Mercedes Benz is jumping on the bandwagon with a $100,000 gas-electric luxury sedan and a promise that one in five cars it sells will be a hybrid by 2015.
  (tags: hybrid cars mercedes)

  

• A Vertigo-Inducting Jenga Apartment Tower in NYC [Gizmondo]
  Fresh off the billions of eyes that have been on the beautiful Beijing National Stadium, Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have set their sights on NYC with this incredible 57-story residential tower
  (tags: architecture NYC innovation)

  

• Ikonoskop A-cam dll 1080p Camcorder Shoots 240MB of Video Every Second [Gizmondo]
  The key to the crazy looking Ikonoskop A-cam dII camera may be the 80GB card that comes with it. How else would you expect to shoot 60 RAW frames of 1080p video, totaling out at 240MB each and every second?
  (tags: video hdd)