It’s Ok to love your phone, but you don’t need to build a giant version of it for your living room Just when you thought tales of people baking cupcakes to pay homage to their beloved gadgets was too much, we now have people building coffee tables to look like iPhones [via SlipperyBrick] Here’s one nice looking [...]
Continue reading...3. November 2008
Don’t fire your translator just yet, machines can’t do it all You found it easy to disagree with people who didn’t like your ideas that email and machine translatable language would make things easier and make business more robust. You argued constantly with people who wanted to keep the human soul in business and rely less on [...]
Continue reading...29. October 2008
In the wilderness of New York City, come equipped with rabies shots and cell phone cameras It’s not often that you run into one of the real reasons they call New York the concrete jungle. It’s raccoons. There are many of them out and about in the trash cans of Brooklyn. But our fair blogger, who [...]
Continue reading...18. October 2008
Taking the R Train, I worry that the US is not Mobile Phone Obsessed Louis Menand reviewed a book in The New Yorker about texting, that ubiquitous technology and practice that Asia uses with gusto, but that is still treated with suspicion in America. It will probably continue to be if people like Menand keep writing about [...]
Continue reading...15. October 2008
Forget about pushing buttons. The next great way to interact with your phone is to give it a really good shake. The handshake – ancient tradition, an act of greeting, of friendship, of peacemaking, of deal brokering, of promise and trust. We all love a good shake. Now our phones do too they. The iPhone, and [...]
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8. December 2008
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