While the use case for these glasses can quickly become quite dubious, the YouGen.tv glasses by Vergence Lab are pretty cool. Not only do they instantly change from sunglasses to clear Buddy-Holly-style specs they also record your life as it happens

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Kickstarter: These Nerdy Glasses Will Record Your Life

It’s too common a story: smart, low-income kid can’t find their academic passion, so they drop out of school. But now you can rewrite this tragic tale with the help of Wishbone.org , a philanthropy website launching today where you can crowdfund high-potential youngsters so they can afford inspiring after- and summer-school programs

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Crowdfund A Needy Kid’s Education With Conway-Backed Wishbone.org

It was 6:30 on Sunday morning, August 9th, 2007 when Ted Morgan , the Boston based CEO of a little location technology start-up called Skyhook Wireless , got a totally unexpected call from an absolute stranger in California.

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Keen On… Ted Morgan: Why Skyhook Has Become A Harvard Business School Case Study [TCTV]

Microsoft is trying to clean up the Windows Phone Marketplace and as part of this effort, the company just clarified some of its guidelines for developers who want to sell their apps in Microsoft’s app store. Among other things, Microsoft has decided to move to “a more stringent interpretation and enforcement of our existing content policy” for apps that are “‘racy’ or sexual in nature.” This is a problem we pointed out early last month

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Microsoft Asks Windows Phone Developers To Keep The Quality Up And The Sex Down

With the release of their BlackBerry 10 beta development tools and Dev Alpha devices earlier today, RIM has made it very clear that they want to build up as much developer love as possible before BlackBerry 10 officially launches. Well, as it turns out, that’s not the only thing they’re doing to attract devs. Alec Saunders, RIM’s VP of Developer Relations, revealed at BlackBerry World that RIM will guarantee developers of quality apps a minimum of $10,000 in annual earnings — if developers come in under the $10K mark during their first year, RIM will actually pay them the difference.

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RIM To Developers: We’ll Make Sure Your App Earns At Least $10K In Its First Year

One of the geeky, cute contraptions of the early Facebook days was a web-enabled beer keg at company headquarters. Whenever an employee swiped their RFID badge on it, a camera would snap a photo of them pouring a beer and post a status update to Facebook

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Facebook Engineer Behind ‘Presence’ Is Turning The Concept Into A Standalone Company

Remember that retro time-defying camera app that RIM unveiled alongside a few other BB10 features? You should — it happened this morning

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Did Scalado Invent RIM’s Time-Defying BB10 Camera Tech?

Sammy is now the big kahuna of cell phones. Today’s Juniper Research and comScore reports indicated that Samsung kicked Apple from the top spot in regards to smartphones. IDC also released a report today indicating the same thing while noting that Samsung kicked Nokia from the top of total phone shipments.

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Samsung Is The New King Of Mobile

A new startup launching today called eVr1  has a slightly kooky, kind of awesome idea at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds. In the words of co-founder Brandon Peele, eVr1 has tried to answer the question, “What does it mean to be human being in the context of 16 gigs?” So the team selected what it saw as the most important aspects of human knowledge and literature — the entirety of Wikipedia, the CIA World Factbook, and a literary canon that includes authors like Plato, William Shakespeare, and James Joyce (to name just a few — you can see the full list here )

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eVr1 Turns The High Points Of Human Knowledge Into A Portable Codex

Bigger isn’t necessarily better but in the case of Jawbone’s Jambox, it might actually work out. Typically known for their Bluetooth headsets and the ill-fated-but-not-quite-dead UP band , Jawbone has figured out what their “cool kids” product is and it happens to be a tiny portable speaker

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Hands-On With the Jawbone Big Jambox: 2.7 Pounds of Audio Fury, Available May 15 for $299