February 2010
10 posts
“Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is...”
– Dieter Rams
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Evoluon
Evoluon was a conference centre and science museum built in Eindhoven by Frits Philips in 1966.
www.evoluon.org
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Alien vs Pooh
More on Flickr
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BBC Micro News
Ever wondered what the BBC News would sound like if it was read out by a 20 year old BBC Micro computer?
BBC Micro News is recordings of actual BBC Micros reading the RSS feed of the latest news from the BBC News website. It’s not an emulation. This is 20 year old technology hooked up to the internet.
There’s even a daily podcast with Big Ben chiming between the stories.
Genius.
...
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“The Internet eats everything it touches.”
– Brady Forrest and Nathan Torkington (O’Reilly Media, Inc) in The State of Where 2.0 (PDF).
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“Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning....”
– Mark Weiser
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I Love Instapaper
Instapaper is a simple web service that allows you to save web pages to read later. You view your saved pages by visiting the Instapaper site.
Let’s say I wanted to read this page later.
My Safari has Instapaper’s “read later” bookmarklet as the first bookmark in my bookmarks bar so I hit Apple+1 and I get a small “saving… done” message to tell me...
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“Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the...”
– Charles Eames
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SenseAware
Here’s a talking box.
Yes, it’s a talking box.
Late last year FedEx announced a service they’re launching called SenseAware - a fantastic example of a useful Internet of Things based service.
The Senseaware service is based around a small device containing a small array of sensors. It knows its location, speed, temperature and whether or not its box has been opened or...