Future of 'Glanceable' technology glows AP via Globe and Mail (April 19) Ambient Devices of Cambridge, Mass will display information in orbs - the colour and size will cue people to changes in the information they are monitoring. -- "The idea behind Orb came out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, where "Tangible Bits" research led by Professor Hiroshi Ishii aims to replace computers' graphical user interface with tangible representations of the data they produce — giving physical form to information. Paul Saffo, research director at the Institute for the Future, calls the Orb and similar objects "calm computing devices" and believes they augur future relief from information overload."