are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points.
a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. (not an offline wiki editor)
one of the pioneers of the cross-disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created.
an open source programming environment and electronics i/o board for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics.
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results: