Watch people watching.

• Position: TECHNOLOGY - Brief article

Shaw Kaake thinks that people entranced by hand-held games and video players tend to ignore the world around them. His response was to develop the Egokast, a palm-size video player that doubles as a belt buckle. Instead of watching the Egokast screen, the Wearer watches other people's reactions to it. "This is the first media device that you don't watch, but everybody else does," says Kaake, an American designer living in Shanghai. "Instead of staring into your BlackBerry, you're...