Social Call: "Last year Future Platforms built a mobile Java-based Sudoku game for Puzzler Media that allowed users to register their scores in a league. "We thought we'd get maybe 5% of people reporting their score," says founder Tom Hume. In fact, a massive 40% of players entered their scores."

Heatwaves: "Research conducted at the Met Office, shows that there is a significant human contribution to these heatwaves because of CO2 emissions over recent decades. This is a sign of things to come, with the current temperatures becoming a normal event by the middle of this century."

Audiophones for Books: "They can then use the software's interface to browse available titles, and listen to two minutes of each book for free, before deciding to download."

The "Fuck Off" Flag: "When you need uninterrupted concentration time, you just stick your flag in the Blue-Tac and everyone knows that you’re not to be interrupted. No phone calls, no questions - you’re basically not there. The F.O.F. simply says "Fuck off, I’m busy", but in a much kinder and more socially acceptable manner :-)"

Playful interaction and goal-oriented gaming explored through media arts practice: "Game/Play is a networked national touring exhibition focusing on the rhetorical constructs game and play. This collaboration between Q Arts, Derby and HTTP Gallery, London provides a basis for exchange and interaction between audiences, artists, curators and writers through the exhibitions and networked activity."