Shigeru Miyamoto: "I think what that means is that this model that we’ve seen in gaming so far, where you have a laid-out strategy, you have a map that you go through in a game and you have a clear objective, that this not necessarily the only type of game that’s out there."

I can talk about another project which we did earlier this year for Nokia which was *exactly* along these lines, but it deserves a proper post. Soon... soon...

Priya has released her presentation from Etcon on Project Miljul, a piece of research targeting urban mobile workers. Fascinating stuff.

Are these prototypes really all that interesting? Phones that are jewellery, phones that are all screen, curved devices, thin devices... a lot of this stuff isn't speculation, it's nigh-there, and I would imagine that there's much more interesting stuff lurking in the depths of Nokia than this.

Me? I want to know what happens to us as a society when the third world get the sort of mobile penetration we are fortunate enough to have now - when the starving can communicate directly with the well-fed, say.

Young blog their way to a publishing revolution: "...a third of all young people online have launched their own blog or website." I also liked the idea that "rather than using the internet as their parents do - as an information source, to shop or to read newspapers online - most young people are using it to communicate with one another.". Wonderful.

Gorillas seen to use tools: "Gorillas have been seen for the first time using simple tools to perform tasks in the wild, researchers say."