Startups: Bug Labs, Ponoko, Potenco

- Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, or learn solid state electronics. Bug Labs is developingBUG: An open source, web-enabled, modular software and hardware platform. It's a fully programmable and "hackable" Linux computer, equipped with a fast CPU, 128MB RAM, built-in WiFi, rechargeable battery, USB, Ethernet, and a small LCD with button controls.

- Ponoko is the world's first personal manufacturing platform. It's the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand. The ponoko.com marketplace connects creators, consumers, digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote, make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites.

- Potenco envisions a world powered by Everyone. They mission is to make clean power universally accessible and immediately useful. Potenco developed the PCG, a new approach to human power generation expected to initially spread across the developing world with the XO Laptop.

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