The Internet of Things is potentially an entry on buzzword bingo - but I'm prepared to give it a chance as it could help us get to the point of technology being ambiently intelligent. Read on to decide for yourself if this is just one big game of words....or a tech revolution in the making.  

Designspiration is a new app for Windows Phone 7 that brings together some of the finest design apps from across the web in to a single WP7 app. 

Elephant in the room (with Sonic). 

The Channel 9 team kicked off a new section of their site this week called Coding4Fun - it houses downloads, videos and sample code for all manner of projects from building a Windows Phone 7 app to building a rocket that can fire t-shirts in to a crowd. Seriously. 

Microsoft Surface has seen a lot of buzz since the announcement of the 2.0 version of the technology at CES. That hasn't stopped a lot of cool stuff going on with the current version of the product and catching up with Eric Havir from the Surface blog team was a timely reminder. He also showed me some cool demos he's worked on for 2.0 that we'll have here on Next as soon as possible. 

Well this promises to be interesting - an event titled Beyond the Search Box is brought to us next week by Big Think's Farsight 2011 and though it's sponsored by Bing, representatives from Google and Blekko will also be on hand. Add in folks like Esther Dyson and Jaron Lanier (amongst others) and we have the makings of a fiery discussion on where search is going. I'll be on hand in San Francisco and the event will be live streamed. 

You could be forgiven for thinking this blog is all about Natural User Interface (NUI) - there is so much ground to cover on this topic and it's now moving fast so apologies for the wave of NUI posts. Not content with posting here, the Official Microsoft Blog also got a dose of NUI today...