There's a wooden book that unfolds into a desklamp and a polymer incubation blanket for infants that's "on track to save 100, 000 children's lives, " according to Hatch, TechShop's spikey-white-haired CEO.
Why should a hotel desklamp merely provide light when it can also contain an electrical outlet and a phone jack for your laptop so you don't have to crawl around the floor plugging stuff in?
It was also a hot week for energy-generating tech as Intel unveiled a solar laptop chipset that can be powered by a desklamp and MIT developed a tiny kinetic generator that can produce 100 times more power than previous devices of its kind.