10 cool things from MacWorld

In our morning session at the NCLB Showcase, Apple employee Janet Hill shared her top 10 list of cool things she saw at MacWorld Expo. Here’s her list with some links:

• iStopMotion and iVeZeen from Boinx Software are used for stop motion animation, time lapse recording, and recording movie clips with an iSight camera.
• 3D Weather Globe & Atlas from MacKiev incorporates NASA maps and real-time satellite data. You can also overlay current weather on the maps.
• iGuitar makes guitars that can be interfaced directly to your computer.
• XtremeMac Airplay is a FM transmitter for an iPod
• The Solio is a solar charger for your iPod, cell phone, or other small electronic device.
• Macally sells iPod accessories.
• Podcasting. I’ve posted on this before.
• If you’ve got some song writing talent, maybe you should give the John Lennon Bus Tour a try. Participants may get a chance to record a song and video in a mobile recording studio.
• Grokker takes a different tack on search with a graphical interface that attempts a non-linear approach to communicating results. You need to register to try it, but there are some screen shots.
• The Griffin iTalk makes it easy to record audio directly to your iPod. I only wish the iPod wasn’t such a crappy voice recording device (e.g., preset, low bitrate encoding)

Looks like some cool stuff here. You can sure see that Apple is pinning their hopes on the iPod.