This week's discussion on technology from around the web.

Edwin – a speech-to-speech assistant (think accessibility) Android app built by one of our very own developers Carl Rice. Some cool features include asking for weather, location, translations, closest public transportation, etc. Note that the app is in an early alpha stage, this is a very early release and still a work-in-progress.
• Cool: It only took Carl under a week from downloading the SDK to publishing the app to the Android Market. Cool? More like Awesome!
• Not cool: Carl showed the app in our forum and you won’t get the full effect until you see it in person.

A Book Apart - "A Book Apart publishes highly detailed and meticulously edited examinations of single topics"
• Cool: Zeldman and company bringing insightful books to the world. We are excited to get our hands on their first published book, HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith. Here’s an interview with Jeremy about the book.
• Not cool: We need to wait a couple more weeks. We want more!

HTML5 Doctype - "... you can write your web pages in a completely standards-based way (CSS, HTML5, JavaScript) and not have to use a single browser-centric tag in order to do so."
• Cool: New doctype will be supported by current browsers even if they don't implement the new html5 spec, they will just switch to standards mode.
• Not cool: We have to test this to believe it!