Scott and Alex Mueller, a husband-wife team who live at Moosicorn Ranch, an experiment in sustainable living.
They started shopping for land online one day and set out to create affordable housing, generate sustainable power and farm their own food.
Because they started with a blank canvas, they were able to ensure they were using the most cost-efficient and sustainable materials. They also can incorporate geeky tech into the guts of their house.
For example, their special wiring and electrical situation makes it possible to control their entire house to be controlled with an iPhone.
Now, if we can only get the whole world to evolve into a smart grid!
Scott Draves is an open source geek artist.
He uses algorithms and APIs to make cool looking computer graphics — and a lot of is open source!
Odds are that you’ve seen some of his stuff in the form of Flame images and graphic.
He also works with an interactive visual musical instrument known as Bomb.
The next step was the Electric Sheep, which is a screensaver delivered via distributed supercomputer. The audience votes to drive the genetic algorithm. As a result, everyone who is sharing the experience can vote up or vote down the sheep. The bad sheep die and the best sheep combine with other top sheep to create totally new sheep.
It’s a crowd-sourced artistic graphical experience.
Now, Draves is working with Play Generation 243.
Melody Biringer is a natural-born entrepreneur. Shauna Causey is a big-time corporate girl.
Together they are Tech Mavens.
According to its Twitter profile, Tech Mavens is working to promote (and connect) trailblazing women in the digital, social media and technology spheres.
The idea spawned between Causey and Biringer in early 2010 at Startup Weekend in Seattle and SXSW Interactive in Austin. They both have had success in the tech and business spheres (or spheres peripheral to those).
Shortly afterward, they were off and running.
They settled on a name, created a logo, formalized their mission and were immediately asked to present their new creation at Gnomedex.
If you’re a woman looking a business and/or tech role model, Causey and Biringer should be your first stop.
Amy Karlson works at Microsoft Research and she’s studying how we use all our devices and the gaps between them.
Microsoft Research studied people’s habits of how much they used their devices (PC and mobile device) throughout the day and what they were trying to accomplish on those devices.
The consensus seemed to be that mobile experience is still broken in many ways. While some tasks (mainly email and web browsing) are often done on mobile devices, the input/output methods aren’t as good as a standard PC.
Johnny Diggz is the CTA for Tropo and he’s working on something called Geeks Without Borders.
According to its Ning page:
Geeks Without Borders is a social network of concerned people, who realize the potential and promise of technology. For us living in the technologically rich areas of the world, we often take what we have for granted. Consider though, how what we have would benefit and improve the lives of those living in areas where the dream of technology is just that – a dream.
If you’re looking for more information check out the GWOB website or hit up the Gnomedex Open Government “Tinkerstorm” on Sunday. Diggz is aiming for a proper announcement of some sort at 10:10 a.m. on Oct. 10, 2010 (10:10 10/10/10).
My name is Micheal Foley. I'm an ex-journalist, content editor at Waggener Edstrom, hyperlocal news fan, content strategy n00b, geek wannabe, libertarian and provocateur. I'm trying to get journalists to look past "how to save journalism institutions" and instead think about "how to save society after journalism institutions are gone." 
