Together, the Jerry Seinfeld Calendar and Pimsleur’s Graduated Interval Recall, create a method for improving the ways we learn.

While far from a comprehensive study on the development of hyper-local languages, Giles Turnbull’s ad hoc research on how different children name Lego’s various building blocks is an interesting, albeit quirky, glimpse into the ways we build internal dialogues and communicate with one another.

Italian coffee maker Illy Caffe will challenge Starbucks Corp’s stronghold over the US out-of-home coffee market by expanding its reach within independent coffee shops, rather than opening up its own.

“Guangzhou Supports You!” is a new crowdsourced, hyper-local online photography activity in Guangzhou, China.

Each year during Tokyo Design Week, DesignTide Tokyo features top design innovations from a variety of fields. With today marking the end of the five-day event, we’ve highlighted three projects below that we find particularly inspirational.

“Living Light” is a piece of public art that uses networked panels to reveal the real-time air quality of each neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea.

As further evidence of the increasing threat that crowdsourcing poses to advertising agencies, PepsiCo’s Mountain Dew will reward marketing duties for a $100 million-plus business to a consumer-picked player, via an online contest beginning in late November 2009.

Musician John Mayer has released a new augmented reality video called Battle Studies that places viewers right in the action.

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Graffiti Analysis 2.0 takes live tags and drawings and transforms them into active 3D animations. Even Roth’s project was demonstrated recently at the BLK River Festival in Vienna.

Japanese pop act, the Helicopter Boyz highlighted the projection feature of the new Nikon COOLPIX in a recent performance.

Andy Woodruff at Cartogrammar has created a series of maps that use Flickr as a paintbrush.

The guys at Pecha Kucha have started to upload the presentations from the Pecha Kucha nights around the world.

Celebrating H&M Home’s transition from an online and catalog retailer to a physical showroom, design firm UXUS have constructed a unique experimental retail installation.

Writer / actor John Hodgman has presented an interesting theory about a coming geek-centric future in a recent interview with the Kansas City News.