TAG: technology

Why Amazon's HaaS (Hardware as a Service) Strategy is a Winner

"It's intriguing to watch Amazon, the old favorite dot com era e-commerce site, transform itself into a technology company with their new and innovative HaaS unit."

Tags: amazon business internet technology


Eye-Fi Adds Wi-Fi to Almost Any Digital Camera

"It's an SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to any camera. Plus the free Eye-Fi service supports automatic uploads to 20 different web photo sites (like Flickr) as well as a computer on your home network."

Tags: technology camera wifi invention photography gadgets


The Outsourced Brain

"I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants."

Tags: brain trend memory technology


Social graph-iti

"But unlike other networks, social networks lose value once they go beyond a certain size. “The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded,� says Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley forecaster."

Tags: facebook technology networks


Human Memory and the Outboard Brain

"My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us."

Tags: brain memory trend technology


Apple Introduces New iPods - Second Take

"Apple is NOT preaching to the choir here, they're looking to get a whole new customer into the house of worship and that's exactly what's likely to happen this holiday season."

Tags: apple ipod iphone technology


Proper comparison points for Kanye West, Michael Jackson, 50 Cent, and Norman Mailer

"Meanwhile, who is really the new Michael Jackson? The iPhone of course."

Tags: music trend insight technology culture


How Google Works

"In the past 12 months, Google doubled its staff, tinkered with its search engine to speed up results, and now answers more queries than Microsoft and Yahoo combined. But there’s one query we had to answer ourselves: How does Google work?"

Tags: google visualization search technology


Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch

"If you accept one pretty reasonable assumption, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else's computer simulation."

Tags: future technology nytimes


The Enterprise, Apple, and Insufficient Ambition

"The only tools that succeed in an enterprise situation are those which are so compelling that people choose to use them in their free time."

Tags: it business technology usability


Vote-swapping Web sites are legal, appeals court (finally) says

"It took seven years, but a federal appeals court has finally vindicated the creators of vote-swapping Web sites that let Al Gore and Ralph Nader fans support their chosen candidates in the 2000 presidential election."

Tags: politics technology law


'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean

An editor at Forbes has been lampooning Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on a popular blog, “Fake Steve.�

Tags: blogs apple journalism technology nytimes


Virgin America

"Developed internally at Virgin America, the system is named Red and provides live satellite tv, movies, mp3s, games and plane-wide chatting. Yes, chatting."

Tags: airline virginamerica technology opensource community


Meet the Wired Retired

"Could it be that the wired retired are the new digital trailblazers?"

Tags: culture technology insight demographics


Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future

A not-so-hard-to-imagine future vision from Bruce Sterling.

Tags: blogs culture future local rfid science technology


In Poker Match Against a Machine, Humans Are Better Bluffers

"Hidden cards and risk-taking behavior like bluffing have made poker a difficult challenge for software designers. But as with chess and checkers, the computers are catching up."

Tags: nytimes technology chess poker ai


Factfile: XO laptop

"The One Laptop Per Child project is one step closer to releasing the completed machine to millions of schoolchildren in the developing world. But what makes the computer so unique?"

Tags: technology opensource


Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo

"Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation."

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Forget 'Digital'. We're Talking Post-Communication

"This is not a digital revolution. It’s social. Your Freeview box is digital. Your computer is digital. Everything else is people."

Tags: media community technology culture


Thirty Six Youth Facts in One Hundred and fifty Nine Seconds

"The Threebillion Project put together a nice little video for MTV Asia's Music Matters conference in Hong Kong last week. The video displays thirty six youth facts in one hundred and fifty nine seconds."

Tags: asia youth statistics technology research demographics


Camera Phones vs. Cameras

"Context defines the value of functionality and there are plenty of times you might not want to carry even a small digital camera at which point, the worst camera you have on your phone is going to be better than the best camera you have in your house"

Tags: camera mobile convergence technology


Some Answers?

"Which ones will "converge"? Well, each of them -- or, really, none of them -- but they'll each still be optimized for the primary function."

Tags: technology convergence gadgets


World's Slowest Instant Messenger

"Connected things in the era of IP networks always do their thing as fast as possible, approaching speeds that are imperceptible to normal humans. Almost without question, this is seen as a good thing. But I wondered what it would take to disrupt that ass

Tags: culture technology internet speed im


You Don't Get It!

"My point wasn't about whether someone gets Apple TV or not, rather that it's a product designed for a different market than folks who want to hook up traditional PCs to TV sets."

Tags: apple television video technology trend


Packet Politics

"As someone who's on the Web too many hours, I have wondered what changing screens hundreds of times each day to access different gobs of "information" has done to the way our brains order the world, which is known as human consciousness."

Tags: politics technology internet culture brain bestarticlesof2007


How Steve Jobs Played Hardball In iPhone Birth

"In Deal With Cingular he Called The Shots; Flirting With Verizon"

Tags: apple iphone marketing technology mobile


What is an Open Creative Community?

"The barrier to entry is creative citizenship, and you are either a citizen and a participant or you are not, based on your individual relationship to that community’s interests, practices, proximity and values."

Tags: creativity likemind opensource community culture technology bestarticlesof2007


Life Fitness will merge exercise equipment and iPod

"Earlier today they announced a new line of equipment that features built-in iPod integration. Once an iPod is docked, users can control playback and watch video via the machine's built-in LCD."

Tags: ipod apple fitness technology


Say Everything

As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.

Tags: attention radicaltransparency identity culture trend blogs youth technology


Communication By Keyboard

"The love affair our culture has with communicating by keyboard has drastically reduced the amount we write by hand, so much so that the New York Times recently reported that the skill, "like an unused muscle," is pretty much dead by . . . High School."

Tags: culture technology communication


Who Will Win High-Def DVD Format War? Ask The XXX Industry

"But considering the adult-entertainment industry’s historical lead in adopting new media and marketing technologies, could its withdrawal from physical media signal a larger media-consumption trend altogether? One without stamped DVDs?"

Tags: dvd technology trend sex video


How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote

Should he really have announced six months before release?

Tags: apple technology mobile design presentation business


Plan Will Allow 911 and 311 Lines to Accept Digital Images

"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who built his fortune on innovations in information technology, announced a plan yesterday that will allow emergency 911 call centers and the popular 311 service line to receive digital photos and videos from callers."

Tags: nyc technology politics mobile photography


Homaro Cantu's Weird Science

"Homaro Cantu's odd brand of humor, technology, shock value, and flavor has turned the fine-dining experience on its head. Now this 29-year-old reformed pyromaniac is trying to redefine the nature of food--and, oh yeah, end world hunger."

Tags: food restaurant science technology innovation cooking invention


Apple Fails to Reinvent Telecommunications Industry

"Apple did NOT reinvent to telecommunications sector even though there is a good chance that it could have done so. Too bad."

Tags: apple mobile technology


Apple's New Calling: The iPhone

Time has a good breakdown of the iPhone.

Tags: apple design mobile technology innovation


The Desktop Terabyte

"How does using a computer change when nothing ever has to be thrown away? And how does the experience design of software have to change to accommodate that change in usage?"

Tags: technology innovation culture


The Long Zoom

"In an age of microscopic technologies and sweeping Google-earth panoramas, Will Wright, the world's most successful video-game inventor, has set out to create game (or is it the art form?) that will teach us how to really see."

Tags: videogames education thinking creativity design technology


It's All About Us

"The fact is that most user-created content on the Web is not challenging the authority of a traditional expert. It's working in a zone where there are no experts or where the users themselves are the experts."

Tags: web2.0 media2.0 technology community aggregation


The Last of a Dying Breed

"Yes, they're efficient and good for business, if business is what you care about. But sitting at a computer when you don't have to is to be cripplingly passive, even if you're playing the bloodiest, most maniacal shooter game ever."

Tags: technology communication culture


In Praise of Radical Transparency

"Perhaps the most interesting of these is the shift from secrecy to transparency."

Tags: transparency identity privacy technology trust blogs communication


Professional radicals

"It's about how brands today need to show some respect to consumers, think about building communities . . . and brand experiences not simply rely on interrupting people through broadcast advertising."

Tags: marketing advertising innovation trend technology


Tools for Making the Crap Great

"Creating tools and formats that give people a say and getting them creatively engaged will be the secret to making the "Direct Economy" a reality."

Tags: creativity technology design


Announcing The Techdirt Insight Community

"Companies sign up to engage the Techdirt Insight Community to raise issues, get feedback, test ideas, review products, make strategy suggestions. . . or any number of other services that require a dedicated group of experts."

Tags: blogs business research marketing technology


Sony ex-chairman warns on future

"Japan's consumer electronics industry is dying, Sony's former chief says."

Tags: business japan technology


Market gossip goes high-tech

"Market gossip is to take on a more high-tech form thanks to a new automated system that will trawl through more than 40m internet sources – from blogs to regulatory filings – on behalf of hedge funds."

Tags: technology markets predictions finance


Invention: Triple-standard DVD

Warner Bros. has a patent for a DVD that can be read by Blu-Ray, HD DVD and standard DVD.

Tags: dvd technology invention


Inner Blogging

"Inner blogging: your mind becomes a blog, and your sensory impressions are the posts. Your entire life seems like an ongoing "blog" of sorts. Blogging is then like praying. You are constantly "publishing" new "posts" to your inner consciousness."

Tags: blogs brain thinking technology


Apple previews iTV home theater playback box

"Resembling a squat Mac Mini, the iTV will use wireless networking to stream movies and TV shows from iTunes to a television."

Tags: apple television technology


Social Hardware

"A computer by itself is a piece of antisocial hardware. It is all about a person alone in from of a glowing, captivating screen. But once that computer is connected to a network it has potential to become a social tool, but only if unlocked by software."

Tags: socialsoftware culture technology


Payphone Warriors

An interactive capture the flag game using payphones around nyc.

Tags: cool nyc technology culture


Netscape's junk drawer

"'What if the New York Times decided to have readers vote on where things should be placed in the paper?' Only a very narrow slice of the population - the Web 2.0 true believers - would view this as anything other than a rhetorical question."

Tags: web2.0 internet technology culture geeks


Apparently "forever" has been over-rated

"Diamonds are no longer a girl's best friend, according to a new U.S. study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace."

Tags: gender television technology panasonic


A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 2

"In part two of Jesse James Garrett’s interview with author Steven Johnson, we look at cultural attitudes and innovation in interface design."

Tags: culture interface design technology books ui


I am not a "woman blogger"

"These are my passions, but they reflect the part of me that is about horses, running, skiing, skating, the environment, writing, or creating. If I relabel them to reflect my gender, I believe both (my gender and the labeled thing) are diminished by the "

Tags: blogs gender culture identity technology


LG taps into the power of blogs

"LG appears to have enlisted the power of bloggers to help promote its new Chocolate phone. "

Tags: design mobile technology marketing blogs


The Chocolate Blog

Promotion from LG about their new "Chocolate" phone. They are incredibly open about wanting to recruit bloggers to talk about the product. Cool stuff. (If anyone there happens to read this, I'd be happy to help.)

Tags: design mobile technology blogs marketing


Beyond Brand Management

The anatomy of the 21st-century marketing professional.

Tags: branding marketing trend business strategy planning technology


Get That Out of Your Mouth #27

"We have to strip away the geekery, the gadgetry, and the consumerism, and instead of explaining why this brave new freakshow interests us, we have to understand what it's doing to us."

Tags: culture technology media writing journalism


Zefrank: Ugly Contest

With the accessibility of new technology, it's all about the content.

Tags: art photography design culture technology media


A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 1

"All other things being equal, a person who is used to making active choices while consuming media is going to be more receptive to complex media, even if the medium is a passive one, like television."

Tags: culture interviews internet technology


Apple Computer Nike + iPod Sport Kit

A very close look at how the Nike + iPod works.

Tags: apple fitness attention technology nike shoes


Making Something Meaningful

"If you believe that tools influence content, and I absolutely do, then the most important thing we can do with all this technology is to try to build tools that encourage meaningful expression."

Tags: technology creativity communication community relationships blogs


Your exit interview of me

Robert Scoble answers readers questions on lots of topics.

Tags: microsoft blogs technology business


Cybergreen

Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future

Tags: design culture environment scifi technology


Pre-Internet Thinking

"The time is long since past when morning newspapers can pretend they are breaking big national and international news stories. They have to remember that their readers know what has happened."

Tags: journalism internet newspapers technology


Which products, used by few today, will be essential in five years?

A great look at the year 2011.

Tags: future trend technology innovation attention


Top Ten Truths About the Digital Ecosystem

A great state of the digital ecosystem piece.

Tags: business culture internet media2.0 technology


Serendipity casts a very wide net

"It is no accident that technology commentator Bill Thompson believes that the web does a lot to promote chance discovery"

Tags: culture search technology serendipity


Graphic language for touch

"This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. "

Tags: design icons communication rfid internet technology


Three great machines and innovation limitation

Scott Berkun writes about the great machines he has owned.

Tags: innovation technology design


Interview with Alex Galloway

"But at the end of the day Google is still a modern answer to a postmodern question: it is a massive, centralized hub enlisted to parse and catalog the universe of human endeavor."

Tags: interviews technology culture


Riya

A photo site with facial recognition.

Tags: photography community privacy technology


The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order

McDonald's has begun to outsource drive-through order taking.

Tags: business food jobs technology outsourcing


Wi-fi set to re-wire social rules

"With more people now using broadband rather than dial-up and online shopping soaring during the weeks before Christmas, there is no doubt that Britons are big fans of the net."

Tags: wifi culture technology mobile


Internet of things: working bibliography

Lots of great links about the "internet of things."

Tags: things technology internet lists


Why Features Don't Matter Anymore: The New Laws of Digital Technology

" As computing and digital devices move more and more into the consumer space, features and functionalities will increasingly take the back-seat as motivators for technology adoption."

Tags: technology trend design simplicity ux


Rambling about blogging and TV

"It's only because things are so lax that everyone and their brother saw the Chronicles of Narnia SNL spoof video, and SNL ratings definitely saw a spike in the shows that followed."

Tags: television viral video technology internet


The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon

"Digital devices and network connections can allow individuals to bypass chains of command and control."

Tags: culture mobile technology photography privacy surveillance identity


Everything Counts (in large amounts)

In this essay we will look at some of the ways that ideas about architecture are affected by electronic communication and the culture that surrounds it.

Tags: architecture design attention technology media culture art


Mass media's last blast

Most obnoxious line of an otherwise good article: "In the existential hall of mirrors of the new mass technoculture, what goes around comes around, like plot points in a Charlie Kaufman screenplay."

Tags: unbundled business future trend advertising internet technology media


Confounding Machines: How the Future Looked

The New York Times looks back on what people said about new technologies throughout the last 100 years.

Tags: technology predictions quotes


Hype Cycle

"A Hype Cycle is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies."

Tags: trend technology culture research


Ten Rules for Web Startups

Evan Williams, who started Blogger and now Odeo, gives some tips to potential web startups.

Tags: startups business tips technology


Owning ideas

The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all

Tags: ideas business copyright patent innovation internet software technology


Jonathan Ive, Apple Designer

"His goal was to make it simple to use and a joy to look at. He succeeded. The result was the iPod"

Tags: apple design usability technology


Meet the IT Gigolo

Systems Engineer "Ray Digerati" enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two.

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Parasite

"Parasite is an independant projection-system that can be attached to subways and other trains with suction pads. Using the speed of the train as parameter for the projected content, the projection starts with the train moving inside a tunnel."

Tags: art germany apple subway video technology posted


10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers

David Pogue's 10 commandments to electronics makers

Tags: business gadgets nytimes technology posted


The Road Ahead

We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. What we got was a fascinating discussion about religion, technology and politics and why no one's golf scores seem to be getting any better.

Tags: future internet technology culture posted interviews


Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone

"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."

Tags: apple drm mobile ipod mp3 music technology posted innovation


Web 2.0: Conversation with Five Teenagers

Web 2.0 Conference: "Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers."

Tags: youth internet technology myspace research posted


Seven Technologies That Change Everything

Everything from AJAX to biogenerics

Tags: ajax business internet science technology posted


It's not what it is, it's what it enables

"Let me state the obvious: the real value of blogs and wikis is not the tool itself. It's what the tool enables. Sadly, many advocates overlook this simple fact."

Tags: blogs communication posted technology


Putting crowd wisdom to work

"Googlers from across the company contribute knowledge and opinions which are aggregated into a forecast by the market."

Tags: business emergence predictions technology posted


Nano is the new Turbo

"that is why I believe that nano is the new turbo, another technical term appropriated by marketing people and applied in so many ways as to make it meaningless."

Tags: marketing apple technology language posted


Jonathan Ive Interview

"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."

Tags: apple art design internet ipod technology innovation posted


Top 10 Ajax Applications

Nice list of Ajax apps that even includes honorable mentions.

Tags: ajax design technology web2.0 posted


What is mobility, really?

"Mobile phones are not just bad browsers on resource-constrained devices with crappy connectivity and non-free voice."

Tags: mobile technology posted


GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?

Kottke riffs on the idea of a web operating system

Tags: branding internet ideas os predictions future technology posted


DATAFOUNTAIN

"This fountain is connected to money currency rates on the internet. It is realtime! Refreshed every five seconds."

Tags: art money technology visualization posted


Trusted

On Cory Doctorow's Apple/Trusted Computer rant: "Doctorow is clearly ascribing deviousness onto Apple, without a single shred of evidence to back it up."

Tags: apple drm intel software technology posted


Riding With the Urban Mappers

Wired takes a look at just how A9 pulled off block-view

Tags: search maps photography technology posted


Security researcher quits job and blows whistle on Cisco's fatal flaws

"Now he's under a restraining order from Cisco, arising from his disclosure of critical flaws in Cisco's routers that threaten the world's information infrastructure."

Tags: politics security technology internet posted


Co-opting the creative revolution

Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts.

Tags: college creativity internet innovation technology posted


Tech terms

A new Pew study indicates only 9% of Americans know what an RSS feed is

Tags: research rss language technology posted


10 for 10

Steve Rubel's top 10 tech trends for the next 10 years.

Tags: future lists business technology posted trend


Capturing the Unicorn

How two mathematicians came to the aid of the Met.

Tags: art museums photography technology mathematics posted


information aesthetics weblog

A blog about creative information visualization

Tags: art visualization interface technology posted


Why Analog Property Rights Are Wrong For a Digital World: DRM vs Plasticity

"Since most DRM is based on the fundamentally flawed notions of analog property rights discussed above, it can (in the long run) never work in a digital world."

Tags: drm copyright economics internet technology posted


GPS enabled Monopoly!

Monopoly has turned London into a big boardgame using cabs and GPS

Tags: games gps technology cool posted


Ten things I learned about the future at the Wired NextFest

Arstechnica: "In the future, most robots will look pretty much like the robots of the future have looked since at least the 1970's."

Tags: funny technology future gadgets posted lists


how i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control

adaptive path: "Relinquishing control is becoming a requirement in all aspects of Internet businesses."

Tags: business design development internet longtail flickr process technology web2.0 posted


Interview: Odeo founder Evan Williams

Playlist: "Williams’ newest venture is called Odeo, a one-stop shop to help people record, edit, publish, find, subscribe, categorize, and download podcasts."

Tags: interviews podcasting rss ipod technology posted


A Manifesto for Taking Wikipedia into the Physical World

"One of the most exciting things that's going to happen in the next 10 years, in my view, is that the Wikipedia will move into the physical world."

Tags: annotation mobile technology wiki posted


Are You Ready For The Catalytic Consumer?

iMedia: "The old marketing doesn’t work any more. The internet has created a new kind of consumer; one that is personally informed, market-savvy and demands two-way permission-based interactions -- in other words, the marketer’s equal."

Tags: consumerism technology business marketing posted


Foggy screen points the way

Display made from curtain of mist lets users click in mid-air.

Tags: cool technology posted


Who Will Google Buy Next?

"Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?"

Tags: google business internet lists technology posted


Ajax Mistakes

Mistakes developers can make using AJAX

Tags: ajax design internet technology usability posted


The Dark Underbelly of Holy Shit

"An honest HOLY SHIT is one which completely penetrates the PR, the BUZZ, the marketing. It's the moment when you clearly see the value of a technology and how it will permanently alter your world."

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Geek To Live

To-Done: "The underlying theme of my thoughts, the rails upon which this train rode, is my fundamental belief that technology should work for me, not the other way around."

Tags: creativity technology passion design ux posted


The Record Effect

How technology has transformed the sound of music.

Tags: culture music history dj technology remix posted


The god of iPod

Sidney Morning Herald: "An outsider, not even a fan of today's music, Steve had done the almost unthinkable: he had changed the face of a second industry."

Tags: apple ipod music innovation technology posted


Always on Google

90% Crud: "If I can find out something as arbitrary as Ron Howard's birth date from somewhere as disconnected as a movie theater seat, our entire relationship to information is changing."

Tags: google mobile technology posted


Gates: Tech must tackle information overload

Mercury News: "Nobody's paid to do search or just find information. At the end of the day you're paid for designing a new product, having a satisfied customer and doing that with the minimum amount of time, the minimum amount of people.''

Tags: technology microsoft informationoverload software posted


"Star Wars" Spawned a Galaxy of Technologies

George Lucas is responsible for the tecchnology behind Pixar and Avid

Tags: technology movies innovation posted


The New Digital Divide

Seth Godin: "Several million people (and the number is growing, daily) have chosen to become the haves of the Internet, and at the same time that their number is growing, so are their skills."

Tags: business technology firefox blogs posted


Report: Internet adoption

A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life

Tags: research internet culture technology


Washing machine fingers lazy male

BBC News: "It is a washing machine called "Your Turn", which will not let the same person use it twice in a row."

Tags: technology innovation gender posted


The Horseless Carriage...

Plasticbag.org: "The weblog becomes and extension of yourself. A suit you wear, if you will. It's like you're controlling a whole prosthetic version of yourself."

Tags: blogs postmodernism culture technology mcluhan posted


The Joy of Teaching Kid Geeks

Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles: "Definition: "Geeks are the people who deliver technological innovation.""

Tags: education technology youth innovation posted learning geeks


Far Apart but Intensely Connected

Wired: ""This idea that you could connect and be able to share your totally trivial, day-to-day events with your partner in almost real time -- if not real time -- is probably one of the biggest impacts technology is going to have on long-distance relatio

Tags: relationships technology communication posted


Innovation Moves From the Laboratory to the Bike Trail and the Kitchen

NYTimes: "But a lot of significant innovations do not come from people trying to figure out what customers may want. They come from the users themselves, who know exactly what they want but cannot get it in existing products."

Tags: innovation ux technology posted trend


The hipster PDA

The BlackBerry generation, writes TRALEE PEARCE, is finding salvation in pen and paper

Tags: productivity technology lifehacks posted


iPod Killers?

New rivals take aim at the champ

Tags: mobile music ipod technology posted


Lecture highlights need to share

BBC: "I believe that collaboration is absolutely essential for success because it brings both global awareness and the ability to gather together diverse capabilities."

Tags: collaboration innovation technology posted


Designs for a happy life

Toasters, clock-radios, vacuum cleaners - everyday devices, found in everyday homes. So how do manufacturers make us buy more of what we already have? By getting product designers to think harder about how we use things, and designing products for couples

Tags: design business technology posted gender


Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule

People are starting to hack their Prius' . . . cool

Tags: nytimes cars technology environment posted


Why I want a Tablet PC

Using tablet PC to take notes using mind maps

Tags: learning technology visualization thinking posted


Brain chip reads man's thoughts

A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind.

Tags: brain health science technology posted


One Small Step For Hand

An interview with a guy who got an RFID chip implanted in his hand

Tags: rfid interviews technology posted


Pez to dispense MP3s instead of candy

They're making Pez MP3 players. A possible iPod killer?

Tags: mp3 technology music posted fun


Top 25: Innovations

The Internet, ranked No. 1, changed the world

Tags: internet innovation technology lists posted


The Transparent Screens Pool

All the pictures of "transparent screens" that you could ever want . . . very cool

Tags: flickr fun photography technology posted


Countdown to Grokster

EFF is listing devices that would be deemed illegal if MGM wins over Grokster

Tags: p2p copyright law technology posted


My new stance on linking technologies, six guidelines to judge

Scoble steps back from his anti-AutoLink stance and gives some guidelines to tell whether an automatic linking technology is really pro-user

Tags: google microsoft technology posted autolink


A mute Shuffle

The iPod shuffle does not fit into a social-software ecosystem. Cityofsound: "design is dissolving in behaviour, and products are emerging from it."

Tags: apple music technology socialsoftware posted ipod


Wearable Computers You Can Slip Into

The latest generation of these ever-smarter garments look like ordinary clothes, not something only a cyborg would don

Tags: technology innovation posted


IT Facts

open database of IT market research, statistics, sales figures, analyst opinions and forecasts. Explore more than 2,500 articles from advertising to WWW.

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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

The famous essay by Walter Benjamin

Tags: writing culture technology posted


Amazon's 43 secrets

Turns out Robot Co-Op, the makers of 43 Things, has serious Amazon investment money

Tags: technology amazon tags posted


Stewart Butterfield on Flickr

A Conversation with the CEO of Flickr

Tags: photography technology business posted flickr


Tool for Thought

How new software may help us think more effectively

Tags: software technology writing posted innovation nytimes brain


A generation lost in its personal space

New technology is bringing to light philosopher Martin Heidegger's observation that technology is the art of arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it.

Tags: mobile culture posted technology conference


The Year in Technology

List from the Washington Post puts blogs at number two

Tags: bestof2004 blogs technology


Technology and Happiness

Is it possible that technology, instead of liberating us, is holding us back?

Tags: culture technology


The Engadget Interview: John MacFarlane, CEO of Sonos, Inc

Sonos makes a very cool home wireless music system

Tags: music technology wireless


The Gadget Gap

Why does all the cool stuff come out in Asia first?

Tags: gadgets technology


The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines

Meet the hacker who makes your home appliances right with God.

Tags: religion technology


Pong Mechanik

Pong brought alive

Tags: art technology


Technology's gender balancing act

Companies are thinking about women and technology

Tags: technology trend


Innovation: What Steve Wozniak Learned From Failure

Story of Wozniak's failures

Tags: innovation technology


The Tablet PC Takes Its Place in the Classroom

NYTimes spots a fairly interesting trend

Tags: nytimes technology


10 real inventions from science-fiction

Tags: science technology


Japanese get first mobile wallets

Tags: technology trend


Brian Billick and his connection to technology

Tags: nytimes sports technology


The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004

Tags: politics technology


User Experience is More Than Design

Tags: design technology


Creator of (almost) every great Nintendo game talks

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Mobile phones with purchasing power

RFID phones in Japan

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The New Musical Functionality: Portability and access

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Is your computer a loaded gun? (And other Induce Act questions)

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Techies Blast Induce Act

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Verizon and Motorola announce V710 in August

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The state of email and the technology behind it

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The new iPod on Apple.com

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More info about the new iPod

From Newsweek

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MSNBC - iPod Nation

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The Black iPod; Update: Solved!

Read the last line, once in a while the Gizmodo guys really make me laugh

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Mexican Attorney General Gets Security Microchip Implant in Arm

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Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips - News & Technology - CNETAsia

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Computer pioneer Alan Kay talks to Fortune Magazine about the state of computing

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Really long Bill Gates interview

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Grassroots hackers create file-swapping wireless iPod | The Register

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NYTimes.com: A Cell Phone for Calling Butterfield 8

New, old cell phone accessories

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Phones power bike rental scheme

Mobile phones to rent bikes, good idea

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Dartmouth News - Investigating digital images - 07/01/04

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Errol Morris's Interrotron

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Wired: Archos AV-400 review

Archos deserves more respect than they get

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Sony unveils HDD Walkman | The Register

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USATODAY.com - Students create global positioning system text messages

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AOL patents buddy list for TV

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Toshiba SD-P5000 15-Inch Not A Monitor

the joke at the end of the entry made me laugh

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BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Wireless pebbles' track glaciers

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The New York Times > Technology > New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV

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