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

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.

Piers Fawkes presents some thoughts about the hype bubble around Augmented Reality.

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

Last week PSFK was able to get hands on with Motorola’s DROID and walked away impressed by the phone’s remarkably smooth interface and powerful video camera.

Korean designer Yong-jin Kim merges the power socket with a traditional switch, a solution that replaces the act of removing a plug with a simple twist designed to cut off the flow of electricity.

Utilizing freestyle footballers, a hacking experiment features wall-mounted Guitar Hero controls placed in front of a three-story screen. Soccer balls kicked at the life-size panels provide the physical interface for the game within the game.

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.

Xerox has developed a silver ink that can be used to print electronic circuits on fabrics, films, and materials other than boards.

The Living Wall Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is aimed at creating electronically enhanced wallpaper that will be able to turn on and control devices.

Read Write Web points us to an interview that Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google gave at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009 on what the web will be like in five years.

Nintendo DSi’s upcoming title, Ghostwire, uses the embedded microphone and camera to augment reality.

The humanoid robot PETMAN (protection ensemble test mannequin) is planned to be used for testing of chemical protection suits under realistic conditions.

PicTranslator is an iPhone application that has the ability to capture any printed foreign text from a user’s photo and translate it.