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• Design, Gadgets, Mobile, Product, Review, Thoughts

  My history of mobile devices from 1998 - today

  06.03.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  My friend Lian recently posted this photo on Flickr:

  Seeing this phone brought back memories of some of the first mobile phones I ever owned. I started to dig up a couple of photos to post in the comments. In the time since then, I felt compelled to try to pull together a list of all [...]

• Customer Service, Thoughts

  Blind Faith in Coudal Partners (or at least their ability to market something)

  06.01.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve been a fan of what Coudal Partners has been doing for a long time and I felt that their last foray into products, Field Notes, was particularly well-executed.
  Last week I came across their most recent promotion, Blind Faith:

  How cool is that? I think it’s super cool.
  Somewhat surprisingly, I dropped this mystery thing [...]

• Gadgets, Locative, Mobile, Thoughts

  With recent Android and Maps announcements, Google is laying a clear path to augmented reality for the rest of us

  06.01.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Augmented reality (wikipedia) has, for the most part, been relegated to the world of academics and researchers, resulting in interesting (but dubiously practical) demos like this or this funny video of a dog playing augmented reality soccer. Wee!
  This week Google made 2 separate announcements that, when looked at together, lay out an almost too obvious [...]

• Design, Gadgets, Product, Thoughts

  Might ESPN’s Ultimate Remote ultimately be too much?

  05.21.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’m a huge fan of our Harmony One remote (seriously, if you have a bunch of devices and a complicated setup, it will change your life) and I like to think that I have a pretty high tolerance for interfacing with a remote with the hopes that down the road, after all it set up, [...]

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

  Design in the Wild: Health.com’s redesign and why you’ll love it

  05.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Health.com recently redesigned their site and while I’m by no means a regular reader, the first time I went to the site I saw this big callout inviting me to see why I’d like the new site.
  I think often people struggle with making sure people “get” what they’re offering (particularly after they’ve spent a [...]

• 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 [...]