Shippers enter their product and destination data on the Open Harbor interface, which then cross-references the information against an 8-million-line Oracle database, updated daily, of export rules, documents and taxes for 64 countries.

FORBES: Customs Solution

Tourists simply enter origin and destination points, and using a Google Maps interface, the global app creates a circuitous route, full of fun detours such as strolling through a nearby park or popping in to a new boutique.

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Enter Georgie, an Android app that offers up a blind-friendly interface to open up the likes of maps, Twitter and email.

ENGADGET: Georgie app offers up Android features and voice-guided menus for the blind: we go hands-on (video)

Enter the IEEE 1394 architecture and its close kin FireWire, which takes the high-speed digital bus interface up to the wicked fast transfer rate of 400MB per second.

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Users are provided with hosting for their site and a Web-based interface where they can enter their posts. (Disclosure: Forbes.com uses the TypePad service to power its blogs, including one by the author of this story.) Six Apart also operates LiveJournal, a popular free blogging service, and sells Movable Type, blogging software which companies and individuals can install on their own Web servers.

FORBES: Silence Of The Blogs

Since there's no physical interface on the device to configure WiFi, the company's developed Blinkup, a way to enter SSID and password information on any iOS and Android smartphone and beam it to the Electric Imp's light sensor by rapidly pulsing the handset's screen on and off.

ENGADGET: Hands-on with the Electric Imp at Maker Faire (video)