Happy birthday Lewis!

A good case for TV/Video on demand:

Kevin Kelly - Better than Owning

An answer to Cliff’s concerns about battery life?
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/19/fashionable-wristband-charges-your-phone/

Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-centered Products and Services

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Designing-Digital-Age-Human-centered-Products/dp/0470229101/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1232617680&sr=11-1

Those who’ve attended Innovation Club sessions last year will find a number of these entries very familiar indeed.

A number of these apps are genuinely useful, but beg to be integrated into a more seamless experience (cab hailer into a map app perhaps, or training your phone to know it’s place woven into your profile settings)

From a technical standpoint, of interest is that a lot of these apps have been made for the Android platform, further underlining that an open platform helps to spawn innovative solutions..

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_10coolapps

A survey commissioned by Mformation shows 95% of consumers surveyed would be more likely to try new mobile phone services if the set-up were easier.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=165566

(This post is also a test of email notifications!)

Interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo:

http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2009/01/14/interview-with-margret-schmidt-vp-of-user-experience-design-and-research-at-tivo-part-1/

New product for emotionally rich family communication from TTP which have a partnership with Microsoft Research’s socio-digital research group. The product will be launched in 2009.

http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=55105

This concept could be interesting for watching TV with friends, a phone that projects a movie onto a surface:

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5993

Some relevance here to our mobile TV discussions…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7814109.stm