I'm particularly interested in upcoming, not yet widespread stuff, but feel free to submit anything you think is cool and others should know about. Please provide a simple description along with the name.
Seaside running on Gemstone's OODB/Smalltalk VM combo > <a href="http://seaside.gemstone.com/" rel="nofollow">http://seaside.gemstone.com/</a><p>The combination of Seaside w/ a scalable object database completely changed my view on how web development can be done.