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Design

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gadgets, Mobile, Thoughts

  Coming soon to a SkyMall catalogue near you: The Handphone

  05.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is a great example of people taking a design/idea way too far. I can’t really add much more than what WIRED posits:
  The handphone takes this madness a step further. Why have one simple, easy to use unit which can simply be held to the head when you can strap a mess of wires onto […]

• Design, Interface, Thoughts

  What site’s video player would need slow motion? DanceJam, that’s what!

  05.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My friend Susie pointed me towards this little site called DanceJam.com - basically a YouTube for the do-it-yourself So You Think You Can Dance crowd - complete with dance-offs and I assume the occasional person getting served.
  While I was watching this video for JT’s Sexy Back, I noticed a little turtle icon in the media […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Product, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Finally, a blister pack that won’t slice open an artery!

  05.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I can’t tell you how many stupid injuries I’ve sustained by the traditional Fort-Knoxian approach to blister packs. Nice to finally see an elegant solution to that problem. Just pull on the little tab that says “Pull” and your labeler is released from its confines. Easy peasy.
  And yes, that is a brand new, Brother P […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Mobile

  Design in the wild: AdMob’s AdMonitor

  04.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The AdMob AdMonitor provides this a really neat Google Maps mashup showing how their mobile ad inventory is being served up in real time - geographically, on which handsets and on which carriers.
  For something as relatively nebulous as mobile advertising still is for most, this kind of dynamic visualization of information is an excellent […]

• Design, Gadgets, Gold Star, Product, Thoughts

  Lusting after a Ghetto Blaster in 2008

  04.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This morning Gabe sent me a link to this absolutely beautiful piece of audio gear - Lasonic’s iPod Ghetto Blaster. I cannot express to you how awesome I think this is and the fact that it got such a stellar review is even more exciting. The price is a reasonable $170 but sadly there’s not […]

• Data, Design, Mobile

  In India for many mobile data is the only way

  04.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This piece in BusinessWeek does a great job at bringing to light the huge discrepancy between how the concept of “mobile” is so vastly different here in the US than it is in developing markets like India. This has come up a lot recently at work and I think it provides really valuable perspective when […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Product

  Design in the wild: Oxford Landing wine tab

  04.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Dennis sent me this great post by Ben Terrett, a graphic designer in London points out a great little packaging innovation by Oxford Landing wines: a simple tear-off tab with their brand and style of wine so that you can easily remember what wine it was you had should you want to buy it again. […]

• Customer Service, Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Beautiful Barcodes

  04.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Leave it to the Japanese to take something as mundane as the barcode and make an artform out of it.
  Update: Check out this post filled with awesome barcodes that safoocat sent me via Flickr.
  This reminded me of those super cool Japanese manhole covers from a while back:

  These are great examples of how anything (even […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Signage, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Settle down with the labels, muchacho

  04.01.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  This is the door to the men’s bathroom at Mexican Radio in New York City (great restaurant, btw). You know its the men’s room because of that cleverly placed “gentlemen” sticker, right? Were that not there, you may have incorrectly believed this to be a door to a room full of mustaches.
  I thought this was […]

• Design, Mobile, Reading List, Thoughts

  Adam Greenfield to be Nokia’s new Head of Design Direction

  03.21.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Adam Greenfield, author of the seminal book Everyware: The Dawning of Ubiquitous Computing has accepted a position at Nokia as “Head of Design Direction, with a remit for the service and user interface domain.”
  As someone who’s enjoyed Adam’s work for a long time, I’m genuinely anxious to see what he can do to push things […]