Get mobile coupons through local search (Google Mobile Blog)

...So just in time for the holidays, we've made it easier to find discounts when you're on the go. If a business adds a mobile coupon to its Google Local Business Center listing, you'll be able to access it from your mobile device. Just go to google.com on your phone and search for a local business. When you land on its Place Page, you'll see any coupons or discounts that might be available. Then simply show the participating business the coupon, right from your phone, to redeem the offer.

IBM makes supercomputer significantly smarter than cat (ars technica)

IBM has announced a software simulation of a mammalian cerebral cortex that's significantly more complex than the cortex of a cat. And, just like the actual brain that it simulates, they still have to figure out how it works.

The Rolltop Computer That You Roll Up When Done (Dvorak Uncensored)

...The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional bookformed laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer.

The Illustrated Man: How LED Tattoos Could Make Your Skin a Screen (Wired)

...New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course). Researchers there are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit under the skin like a tattoo. Already implanted into mice, these tattoos could carry LEDs, turning your skin into a screen.

Google Maps Navigation officially comes to Android 1.6 (engadget)

...they've gone ahead and backported it to 1.6 (alias "Donut") which means that T-Mobile's myTouch 3G and G1 plus other 1.6-equipped devices across the land can get in on the action.

Ninja Tip: How to Use an Apple Multi-touch Magic Mouse with Windows (The iPhone Blog)

If you’re an iPhone user running Windows and Apple’s new Magic Mouse made you ache for a little taste of that multi-touch goodness on the desktop as well, you’re in luck! No, Apple didn’t provide support themselves, but the enterprising folks over at UneasySilence showed — there’s a hack for that!

Leaked Video: Swyping Versus iPhone Typing. (Swype For Android Is Next). (TechCrunch)

...As you can see in the video above, which shows a side-by-side comparison of typing on the Omnia II versus on an iPhone, the way you type with Swype is you literally swipe your finger from one letter to the next as fast as you can. In the video, the Swypist beats the iPhone typist hands down, so to speak.

Lighter side: Cookie Monster is interviewed by Rocketboom on the origins of "Om Non Non Nom," which has become a commonly used term on the Internet and in the meatspace.