Evan Williams, founder of Blogger, ODEO, and most recently Twitter talks at TED about the amazing uses Twitter is seeing. With just 140 characters, but complete mobility, people are using the micro-publishing platform to broadcast their status, coordinate with others, and monitor any and every type of activity.

Continually progressing UI in the mobile phone arena, The Astonishing Tribe does it again with Nexus. In their latest demo, TAT shows off LinkFlow, Drag and Drop, and a whole host of other newly minted features in the TAT Cascades code.

David Armano, VP of Experience Design with Critical Mass, speaks at the Motion Graphics Festival on how to visually convey information, stories, and a point of view.

Effective communication is everyone’s job—whether you are trying to sell in a concept or convince a client. Visual Thinking can help us take in complex information and synthesize it into something meaningful. In an increasingly fragmented and cluttered world, simple imagery, metaphors and mindmaps can get people to understand the abstract and make your ideas tangible. Find out why thinking visually may be one of the most sought after abilities of the 21st century.

Lachlan Cash from Microsoft demonstrates using touch technologies for business applications. Moving beyond rotating and resizing photos, Microsoft Dynamics has adapted Microsoft Surface for use as a wearhouse management tool. And while Surface in it’s table top form may not make it into offices very quickly, with Windows 7 supporting multi-touch, there is a great chance that other form factors will.

Team Commack, a 15 member team from Commack High School in New York places 2nd at the 2009 JETS/AbilityOne NEDC National Finals. The team developed the New Office Workspace (NOW) which was inspired by Jerina Porterfield. Jerina is a receptionist who is affected by Cerebral Palsy, and the NOW system is a modular universal design which can be adapted to the workplace environment to assist those affected by diseases like Cerebral Palsy. More pictures and information is available on the Commack School District website.

Ms Brown’s class, now among many others around the country are allowing students to stand up at their desks if students choose to. Ms. Brown, with the help of Sunway, a local ergonomic furniture maker, designed the desks (named AlphaBetter) two years ago and it has been spreading every since.

To be presented at CHI 2009, Nano Touch uses a touch sensitive input on the back-side of devices to get around fingers obstructing the screen on the front-side of the device. A big problem on very small displays, nano touch is poised to be highly utilized in future electronics. The Nano Touch has been designed by Patrick Baudisch and Gerry Chu at Micorosft Research and in partnership with Hasso Plattner Institute.

Designed by Silke Hilsing, Impress is a display system which allows physical manipulation of the display surface for input purposes. Learn more about this project from concept to prototype on Silke’s Website.

Sebastian Vettel, driver for Red Bull, gives a run down of the design changes made to F1 vehicles for the 2009 season. Beyond the body-work Sebastian mentions the new Kinetic Energy Recovery System which will recover energy from breaking and enable drivers to use that boost of energy later on during the race.

Hard at work, TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) demonstrated its 3D Eye UI at Mobile World Congress 2009. The prototype system demonstrates the use of eyetracking to simulate 3D windows layers by manipulating the UI layers based on the positioning of the screen relative to the person looking at it. To see the method explained, check out Jonny Lee’s 3D head tracking using the Wiimote.