Normally smartphone events are tightly coupled to your phone device itself. When your cell phone is ringing, your phone speaker plays a ringtone. When you get a new text message, your phone displays it on its screen. Wouldn't it be thrilling to make thoses phone events visible somewhere else, on your wearable, in your living room, on your robot, in your office or where ever you want it to occur? Or would you like to use your smartphone sensors, like the accelerometer, light sensor, compass or your touchscreen to control other devices? 'android meets arduino' is a toolkit, basically consisting of an Android application and an Arduino library which will help you to interface with your phone in a new dimension. You can build your own interfaces almost without any programming experience.

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments

DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X…

DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games…

Native Client is Google's technology to host native applications in the browser.  It is not ActiveX and it is not Java.  I will let you go to the Google Native Client site to learn more, but suffice to say that it is going to change everything (I hope!). 

When I first read about Native Client, I was struck by the possibilities.  The more I thought about Native Client, the more I started to talk to my coworkers about Native Client as "The Plugin to Rule Them All."  The project is open source and I have been following the development of the project for years now.  In the beginning, it was esoteric CPU architecture stuff, but it has recently started to become high level.  As I write this in mid-2011 on the eve of Google IO 2011, I can definitely see that they are nearing release.