It’s a phone, thus, a mic to capture audio.
It’s got a pretty swift safari browser that’s AJAX compatible.
Why haven’t people made voice activated web apps yet? It confounds me.
The only thing I’ve found that’s remotely close is this inelegant solution by Ask.com that seems cobbled together. (SMS + Web + Voice?)
(Actually, [...]
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“Our enormously productive economy … demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…. we need things consumed, burned up, replaced, and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.”
– Victor Lebow, 1955
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Well boys and girls, it’s going to be a busy semester again here at ID, but meh, might as well be, this spring break will be all the more restful and relaxing. Maybe I’ll even skip taking an intersession and go on a two week vacation?
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… Not because his car is particularly good looking, because it definitely got beat with the ugly stick a few times, but because he adapted an old (1992!) car to enable him to hypermile by changing the body style of the car– No engine mods necessary. This is what Amory Lovins has been campaigning [...]
When I was growing up, I used to travel back to India on occasion to see the large percentage of my family that still resides there. I distinctly remember going to my uncles house and having to walk a short distance outdoors to get to the shower. (Yeah, I guess that’s kinda like [...]
Can I just say, that sometimes, I feel like I’m in Pee Wee’s playhouse when I’m reading some random blog entry, design observer, or the latest McK Quarterly and I see the word “innovation“. All the fun creatures and puppets in the playhouse start screaming and yelling around me and I become anxious and [...]
Sometimes, while in the very fragile state of mind, during ideation sessions you bolt out with a flash of inspiration and a great idea, someone in your team (or an rss-feed-equipped-photographic-memory troll from the deep recesses of your brain) will leap up and pull up the website of a company that is–to be blunt–already doing [...]
Why compete on being the low price vendor, when you can boast about taking the least time out of your client’s life?
Anab Jain has an interesting thought experiment and project about this. What if everything you purchase (products and services) were denoted by the amount of time that they took to consume (hours/minutes spent reading [...]
One of the greatest disservices we can do to ourselves as design students is pay unadulterated obeisance to the 98+ methods that exist in ID’s coffers without considering architecting new ones to elicit human understanding… or make stuff.
Here is my recipe for crafting a design method.
Take two parts Creativity (yes, I did say creativity. Contrary [...]
Design Continuum created a set of videos about design/design education and why they believe it is necessary. Check them out, here.
There’s also a BusinessWeek article about it, here.
There is a tremendous demand for design thinkers today. In industry and in consulting, those who can marry creative right-brain thinking and analytical left-brain thinking are at a [...]
I didn’t mean for the title of the post to attract you here (If I hear Web N point “oh” anymore I think I’ll choke someone). But if there is anyone at all who I think has a strong sense of what is coming down the pike, it’s the group over at Twine.
I’ve been [...]
In Keeley’s Design Planning class, we’re trying to nail the plan for a platform solution that aggregates data, uses some sort of human or computer powered inference engine, and visualizes the data in a meaningful way that is actionable by urban planners, city officials, or business leaders.
The work is part of a project titled 19-20-21 [...]
Working in groups on new “stuff” yields people to create concept documents that often are impregnated with the terms “portal”, or “kiosk”, or “handheld” or “consumer electronic device”. I believe that this is because of people’s obsession with high-technology. In reality, using extraneous technology is like using a nuclear bomb to get rid [...]
This Fast Company article gets straight to the heart of what’s important in creating innovation teams.
I know many people with post graduate degrees coming out of their ears who can’t find a job. Why? Because they’re scholastically overqualified but don’t have the savvy, the perception and perspectives needed in a fast paced, competitive world. They [...]
Though I just ponied up the cash for lifetime upgrades to what I think is the best newsreader for the Mac platform (NewsFire — Thanks Pete for the intro!), I still think Twine will be great if it will be my one stop information shop that extracts meaning and connects things for me. Especially [...]
