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Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone
“Technology should get a bit more… human.”
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Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
“Its founder, Bill Gates, is not only the most generous philanthropist in history, but has also inspired thousands of his employees to give generously themselves. No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure.” I’ve poked fun at Microsoft many times in the past, but it is sad how they can’t innovate at all. Instead of a long slow Microsoft failure it would be nice to see them turn the ship around. I’m not holding my breath though, and look to them as an example of what not to do with your corporate culture.
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Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship
Anyone have a spare $200,000 to lend me?
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A technological dead end
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Ms. Dowd Interviews the Inventor of the Telephone
“ME: I would rather be flayed alive and gradually guillotined than use a telephone. BELL: Operators are standing by.”
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Rethinking the Internet
“Some computer scientists think it’s time for an overhaul.” Big science comes to computer science. It’s long, but a very interesting read.
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"Everything's amazing, nobody's happy"
This just makes me smile, big.
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Polaroid Fans Try Making New Film for Old Cameras
A nice little article in the New York Times talking about The Impossible Project.
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A Signature Cadence
Love this post from Rands In Repose and it couldn’t come at a better time. I’m working on finishing up a lot of little details on a web application and it’s great to remember how important these little things are.
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24th Anniversary Macintosh
An incredibly well converted 512k Mac. Seeing a floppy disk drive on OS X is just, well, weird.
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BMW's fascinating GINA Light Visionary Model design study
“It’s about being flexible… context over dogma.” Well said.
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Save Polaroid - Save Instant Film
“This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.”
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iPhone Dev Center - iPhone Developer Program
Everything here looks great and I can’t wait to see what new applications start coming out. The only problem? It’s not coming out until June.
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Recycle Your iPod or Cell Phone
It’s impressive they’re letting you recycle any cell phone even if it’s not an iPhone. Well done Apple.
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Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography
I go and buy an old polaroid camera and then they go and do this! Figures. I’m going to stock up, but it’s really going to make pressing that shutter button a lot harder.
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Apple //c
The unpacking of an unopened Apple //c from 1988. It’s nerd computer porn at its best.
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The Six Billion Dollar Experiment
“The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate the conditions right after the Big Bang.” Big science has always fascinated me. “Yeah, it might cause a black whole and devour the planet, but we should go for it.”
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www.risd.edu/president
John Maeda is the new president of RISD. His book, The Laws of Simplicity was probably my favorite read this year.