I know some angels in Chicago that are interested in starting an incubator program focusing on translational medicine startups. They have contacts and experience on the regulatory/testing end. Not sure what market you are specifically interested in, but feel free to email me.
This is my favorite version of vim on OS X. It uses Cocoa and is fast. There's a pre-built .app in the tarball on that site and a script to launch macvim from the command line.
I tend to only put figures and equations with the necessary explanatory notes in my presentations and discuss the rest. But creating paper handouts as Tufte usually suggests would still probably be more effective, since your audience has something physical to take home.
I think a mind map presentation tool with infinite zoom and pan could be an interesting presentation tool. Something like a high-resolution poster that you navigate in a presentation. It could be distracting to the presenter though.
I am wondering the same. I have a lot of SciPy and NetworkX based simulation code I have been meaning to plug into web interfaces. This could be extremely useful for academic research.
Are there any interesting examples of websites out there that use infinite zoom as a layout for lots of different content like Blaise Aguera y Arca demonstrates around 1:52? Zooming into a picture cloud, zooming into a timeline then blog entries, zooming into a cv then individual project page, etc.