If you need to display digital content in such a way that it just can't be overlooked, the traditional approach is to move to bigger and bigger displays. But once you've covered every wall with screens, things start to get a little banal. What's needed is the ability to let content escape the confines of the screen and inhabit the three-dimensional space of the viewer. A novel approach to this is provided by the PufferSphere, from Scottish firm Pufferfish.

What is the Bubblegum Sequencer?

"The Bubblegum Sequencer is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software. Finally, people can't claim anymore that electronic music isn't handmade."

Okay the name is annoying—we're long past the point where any new product or technology should have a lower-case letter i slapped in front of it—but once you get past that, iPaper provides an interesting approach to displaying documents on the web. Whether it's PDF, Word, PowerPoint or other formats, this is yet another example of Adobe Flash contining its relentless march unabated, swallowing all media types in its path.

Need to take notes during meetings? If so, perhaps you merrily tap away on a laptop? That's great if you touch type and don't mind annoying everyone with the sound of your keyboard. Or maybe you're of the old-school variety and jot things down with a pen? But how fast can you write? And just what do you do with those paper-bound notes after the meeting?

Captivating video from the Discovery Channel; starts with a block of optical glass, ends with a full lens assembly. Apparently it takes six full weeks to create a single lens.

Apple's emphasis on the importance of design has been a significant element in the growing insistance on ensuring that design concerns are placed at the heart of new product development. But if an entire generation of industrial designers now looks to Apple as a source of inspiration, perhaps they should be encouraged to raise their sights—literally.

Okay, so all opinions on Tom Cruise's mental status aside, who among us can honestly say that the computer in Minority Report was not, to paraphrase Paris Hilton, "tight".

Well guess what?

But was I nice enough, that's the question that's now tormenting me, because you see I really, really, would like to find a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet under the tree come Christmas morning.

Another certain, ahem, major presence in the stock image industry has added a very cool project to their roster of sites, services and campaigns. This one commissioned five super talented designers/firms to devise interactive Flash applications that illustrate an interpretation off ten visual concepts all revolving around digital imagery. The results are in some cases quite stunning.

As seen in WIRED Magazine, last month at the Robodock festival in Amsterdam, tech geeks, freaks and artists from all of the world converged to create, show and observe some amazing mechanical artwork which was put together mostly from scrap and reclaimed materials.