Tufte on the iPhone
Legendary interface designer Edward Tufte on why the iPhone works, and where it falls short. The video is slow to load, but fascinating for those who design for the user More …
Have your vinyl and eat it too
Mike Harding notes that some vinyl records now come with free CDs or downloads for easy transfer to an iPod. Great idea. Could be time to drag out the turntable ... More …
Machine Art
Korean artist U-Ram Choe is turning machines to Terminator-style life using thousands of steel and acrylic "bones," to which he adds brains and muscles — CPUs and motors that give the undulating organisms oragnic movement. Amazing. More …
Bringing bad design to justice
How long till the Design Police come up with a Web 2.0 version? More …
Hello new baby
If can’t bring the latest addition to your family to show the rellies, have junior’s photo printed on a sack of rice and send it to them for a more 3D experience More …
RIP, Ed Hillary
1Sir Edmund Hillary has died. If the true mark of greatness is how a person deals with success, Hillary may just have been the greatest. More …
Building Purple2
Wired’s ‘untold story” on the creation of the iPhone is frustratingly short on specifics and there’s not a lot of attribution, but still an enjoyable read. Wonder what Jobs has up his sleeve next week … More …
So that’s how they did it
What makes a good idea? Two been-there, done-that experts have some suggestions for the New Year More …
Someone’s still buying CDs
Three months after offering pay-if-you-want-to downloads, Radiohead's new record tops CD sales charts in the US. I bought the CD—worth paying for the extra bits-per-second, I reckon More …
Pink punk
Photographer Abby Banks and Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore collaborate to show the “collectivist lifestyle of the punk counterculture.” Better than Changing Rooms More …
Google is taking your picture
Sharp-eyed Mainlander notices a visiting Googlemapsmobile. How long till Google Maps Enzed has a street view? More …
Experiments in subliminal advertising
Derren Brown turns the tables … More …
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