One of my favourite blogs and web sites at the moment is by Johny Lee. (If you are not familiar with him go have a look at the link and be amazed).Johny is taking very simple objects and turning them into new ways of interacting with our digital environment. He is a new breed of “technology hacker” that is making us think differently about what can be done with relatively cheap hardware. One of the objects he has been experimenting with is a simple Nintendo Wii controller.Wii Remote (Contoller)The work Johny has done has been picked up by Electronic Arts, who have now built an “Easter Egg” into a new game called Boom Blox that utilises some of the smart ideas he has had. What interests me about this is the future possibilities. How it has the potential to change how we interact with digital media of the future in many different ways. We have already seen companies like Apple revolutionise the mobile phone market with the introduction of the iPhone. The touch screen and motion sensing capabilities of the phone give it a whole new dimension in how you ”play” with it, making the usability a joy in comparison to some of the other phones on the market.iPhoneWii Remote, the Wii controller is actually pretty sophisticated and is a cheap, Blue Tooth capable, Infrared Camera. What Johny and others have been playing with, is how to build interactive experiences of the kind that we have seen in films, like Minority Report. The sort where Tom Cruise interacts with a screen via hand gestures and head tracking and all of this for under £50!Microsoft is also pushing this type of touch technology with the development of Surface Computing.Surface ComputingSurface computing allows the user to interact with objects via a table based touch sensitive screen. Some of the demos they have put together are quite compelling, showing the ability to drag and drop photos and music from one device to another just by placing it on the table and dragging and dropping.When you have chance...