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.

Another illustration of the difference between what people think/say and what they do:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8205940.stm

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8193951.stm

I like the overlay map when you tilt the phone down to look at the floor.

The phone is mostly air:

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/7180/norihiko-inoue-vertu-void-mobile-phone.html

Check out the video from the winner of the interaction design section of the 2009 awards. Similar to many of our concepts, and we took it further conceptually, but see how the video presents it all very nicely:

http://studentawards.dandad.org/2009/categories/14/interactive-design/01654/christian-soderholm-dennis-rosenqvist