YouMe allows subscribers to control real world people by sending real time requests delivered to that users mobile phone for them to carry out or deny; these users are known as “You’s”. Each of the users who are carrying out the requests are known as “Me’s”. The Me’s are equipped with live streaming video and audio recording equipment.

Youme offers subscribers the ability to control real world characters. Each character is a person somewhere else in the world, the user gets to pick their character based on several demographic fields such as age, location, sex, height, weight and so fourth.

The stylish but spartan ACE Hotel mini-chain works with artists local to each of their four locations, making each hotel a showroom of art installations.

The Future Well’s goal is to help those companies lay the foundation, the infrastructure both physical and virtual, to create a pleasant, and profitable, health experience that inspires people to live affordable, healthy, happy, and the most fulfilling lives possible.

Samsung have announced a new iPod shuffle competitor, and they’ve taken the Apple MP3 player’s shake functionality to its reasonable-logical conclusion. The Samsung TicToc has only one button; track playback is controlled by shaking the mediaplayer, and the TicToc can automatically choose a slow track if you shake gently or a faster one if you’re more vigorous.As for that single button, usually it controls power but, when held down, it adjusts the volume – you hold the TicToc upside down to reduce volume, or the right way up to increase it. No display (nor anything like Apple’s VoiceOver track announcement) but the presumption is that with only 2GB or 4GB of memory you probably won’t need it. MP3, WMA, OGG and FLAC tracks are supported, and battery life is up to 12hrs; Samsung have also produced a little docking station to recharge and sync the PMP. Look for the Samsung TicToc later in 2010, price to be announced.

In the first-ever effort to understand the values, hopes and dreams of young people in Europe, MTV asked over 7,000 youths to imagine their ideal world and to consider brands as people and whether those ‘people’ would be welcome in their world –‘Youthtopia’.