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• 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 […]

• Process, Thoughts

  Innovation: Is it the product or the process that changes the game?

  05.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Two posts came across the ol’ reader this week that both make convincing arguments for where innovation has to happen in order to continually propel an organization forward and ideally, force an industry to evolve.
  James Surowiecki writes about how Toyota has been so successful because of the way they infuse innovation into their process (Thanks, […]

• Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  Design in the wild: IntelliScreen - finally, some idle screen customization for the iPhone

  05.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over at ModMyiPhone there’s a post about new software called IntelliScreen that allows you to load widgets onto your iPhone’s idle screen. While I’ve made it this far without jailbreaking my phone (and I can certainly make it another month), this brings to light a need that has until now gone suspiciously unmet in my […]

• Thoughts

  Our cup runneth over with Web 2.0 goodness. How much can we drink, though?

  05.14.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb has a great piece detailing the abundance of [Lifestream/Twitter/MosSoSo/Social News/etc.] offerings out there.
  To me the most obvious cost to getting involved with a lot of these applications + services is the time it takes to properly evaluate them (and the opportunity cost of not having the time to […]

• 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 in the Wild, Locative, Signage, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: User-updated map kiosk in Figueres, Spain

  05.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m finally starting to get caught up after our trip to Barcelona last week. As a little teaser of the photos to come, I wanted to post this photo of a map kiosk I saw in center of Figueres, Spain when we went to check out the Dali Museum (Quick review: Really neat, totally […]

• 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 […]

• Thoughts

  A new generation of spam on Facebook

  05.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Check out what I just got today from our friends at Facebook. Not so fast Jupiter One!
  Best quote from my friend Kevin: “Someone should tell them it’s not MySpace.” Ahh… remember when MySpace was relevant?
  Unfortunately, I think we’re headed for more, not less, of this sort of behavior on Facebook.

• Data, Social, Thoughts

  What would Freud think of how you use Twitter?

  04.21.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Whitney Hess recently did an analysis of her activity on Twitter using Tweet Clouds and TweetStats. Reading her post inspired me to do the same. Here’s what I came up with (btw, I stripped out the @replies to focus more on the content of the messages) :

  I think it would be interesting to look at […]

• 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 […]