Some lovely user interface concepts from Sony. This stuff reminds me of Boppit: "pull it! spin it! flick it! twist it!"

Weblogs as lab books: "I do like to the use the blog as a way to create a string of beads along this or that thread in my thoughts. I don’t feel these beads need to be particularly well formed, just a bit more solid than a passing whim; but certainly not defensible to any particular degree."

Foot-based interaction with games; after extensive research I can confirm that it is possible to enjoy a game of Donkey Konga playing with your feet ("Louie Louie" on Chimp setting)...

"Vehicles similar to this one could also be used in future for upper-atmosphere research, allowing small science payloads to be launched to up to 100,000 feet, and reliably recovered the same day.  ": High altitude glider project

More on haptics for phones and gestural interfaces: "The truth is, haptic sensing is actually a sort of interesting concept for interface design. As phones get smaller and smaller, and there's less and less room for buttons on their screens, a motion-sensitive phone could offer some intriguing ways to manipulate data. If you've got a big list of phone numbers, you could tip the phone forwards and backwards as a way of scrolling through a long list, and shake it once quickly to select one. Indeed, several interface designers have played around with these concepts. What's neat about haptic interfaces is that they turn data into something physical -- as if the lists of phone numbers on your phone were a long list of beads you could roll back and forth."

Isn't there a room for even simpler stuff? I mean, why do devices with stylus uniformly have interfaces which require you to stab small areas of a small screen with a small pointer? Why not have them use long, sweeping strokes of a stylus, mimicking the way we write with pen and paper?