Volkswagen believes that injecting a healthy dose of fun into the often mundane tasks in our daily lives, such as choosing the stairs or remembering to recycle, is the best method for positive influencing our behaviors.

To combat falling domestic merchandise sales and increase Mickey Mouse’s relevance amongst children, Disney has undertaken a quiet, albeit full-blown revitalization of the character.

Social networking site Architizer is being promoted as a “Facebook for Architects,” enabling architects, architecture curators, clients, critics and fans to interact.

In a project aimed at exploring the evolving face of communication, networking, and shared tasks, DARPA is marking the 40th anniversary of the Internet with a team-building challenge hoping to inspire organization and coordination of groups throughout the continental United States.

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.

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.

A new location tracking application for the iPhone called Stalqer is about to launch in the US. The app runs in the background and broadcasts your location to your friends automatically every 15 minutes.

Emarketer has just released some very interesting statistics about the projected number of blogs in the US over a 5-year period from 2008-2013.

Following their launch of Metrotwin last year, a social community that twins different things to do and places to see in New York and London, British Airways have now added another city to their fold – Mumbai.

We have covered Foursquare previously, but yesterday we discovered a new feature that better tailors Foursquare to user’s personal needs. Foursquare is now making real-time recommendations based on your current location.

The newest iteration of the NBA 2k series includes a feature called “NBA Today” that includes daily updates from events happening in real world NBA games. How teams and individual players perform on the court affects the video game commentary, performance and stats of individual athletes.

BMW is developing an application store specifically for in-car use.

Austrailia’s Griffith University has added a Twitter component to an existing course which teaches basic news gathering and writing skills.

PSFK sat down to talk with Diesel Founder Renzo Rosso about inspiration, the Internet, nature and more.