Collaboration between the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (remember those previous videos?) and Nokia:

1. Mobile Playfulness
http://vimeo.com/5591155
Great little video on playful ways to ‘doodle’ with your phone.

2. Staying Connected
http://vimeo.com/5591213
Love this one, and very relevant to Yagatta and presence. Put your phone on the grass and your partner’s phone gets a green background, think this is a great way to connect through phones and could inspire some good ideas for Yagatta.

3. Little World
http://vimeo.com/5592233
Make people the centre of your UI. What a great idea, hope they’ll develop this further!

Nice to have someone articulate this, all execs should be required to watch this TED talk on the science of motivation:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

Are we suffering from digital jet leg?

Interesting reflection on the speed of communication and the negative effects this has on our lives in the Wall Street Journal:

Not So Fast

http://personas.media.mit.edu/

Enter your name here to find out:

http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html

A project from MIT to see how the internet sees your name, creating a data portrait of characteristics.

Feel those holographic raindrops, this is pretty cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw

Demonstrated by ShinodaLab (Japan) at SIGGRAPH 2009.

From BBC News:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8199951.stm

Life in 2020

Personas and devices created by Sony Ericsson involving 450 experts from inside and outside the company coming together to predict how technology will be used in the future.

New report from Pew Internet:

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/5-The-Mobile-Difference–Typology/1-Summary-of-Findings/Overview.aspx?r=1

Current social implications of mobile internet access in the United States. Which group would you be in?

NTT’s hardware add-ons for phones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5sit35RPuI

Research by Intel into TV usage, I like the water-cooler effect on PVR usage:

http://www.intelconsumerelectronics.com/Consumer-Electronics-3.0/The-Changing-TV-Experience.aspx

Video:

http://www.intelconsumerelectronics.com/Consumer-Electronics-3.0/The-Next-Generation-TV-Experience.aspx

The Widget Channel:

http://www.intelconsumerelectronics.com/Consumer-Electronics-3.0/Widget-Channel-Overview.aspx