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:
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/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:
Inspiring way to tell the story of a team and work they do beyond tags, keywords, phrases. Building a relationship with their audience in the narrative.
http://www.itvt.com/story/5271/advertising-agency-booneoakley-creates-interactive-youtube-video-its-main-web-site
This also uses youtube’s annotation, which would work well if it didn’t resize your video each time you clicked on a link. Then again, could use flash.
Great content and one of the best presentations I’ve seen.
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.