From time to time I send links around the office of the latest and greatest little innovations I've stumbled upon.

Here's a few...

Beat this Michael

"Interacting with your computer by waving your hands may require just a pair of multicolored gloves and a webcam, say two researchers at MIT who have made a breakthrough in gesture-based computing that’s inexpensive and easy to use.”

WIRED

Happy?

For some reason there was some very very happy people in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch last Sunday night. Were you one of them?

A sweeter spot?

This works a lot like what we built for the backend admin tool of the Suite Spot – but with a fancier user interface.

http://eddy.stamen.com/

Obviously 'photoshopped'

A photoshop content-aware demo – cool!

Does my website look big in this?

Pop in your URL and see what’s visible on different browsers

http://browsersize.googlelabs.com

What the fk is social media?

An upfront message on why companies should embrace social media.

Virtual becomes reality 

“Gone are the days of designers and engineers hunching over drafting tables in a smoke-filled room, working on blueprints for what will next be molded out of clay.”

CrunchGear