We have plenty of devices availabe to supplement our long-term memory: PDAs, computers, pen & paper. How about something to help with your short-term memory while you are continually interrupted? The Cook’s Collage, a research project at Georgia Tech, helps you through a recipe by photographing and displaying your last few steps. Test subjects (college students of course), were asked to make oatmeal raisin cookies while being interrupted by a group of people watching football or conversing about a doctoral thesis. They found the digital reminder very helpful when they tried to remember what point they were at in their task. We’d all like to keep our short-term memories sharp, and I’d like cooking to be an absorbing and relaxing task, but the realities of home life and entertaining may be well served with this helpful device.