Not long ago I read about an engineer from twitter that left to start a bank. So i visited Bank Simple’s website and signed up to be a beta-user. I immediately received an automated response from their Creative Director to field suggestions and understand more about me (their prospective user). Here’s what I wrote: Hi [...]
Windows Embedded Automotive 7 is now in cars you can buy. Via Autoblog: Windows Embedded Automotive 7 introduces new technologies such as Silverlight, which allows for 2D and 3D graphics improvements, and Tellme speech technology, which allows real-time text-to-speech technology and the ability to respond to text messages using spoken input.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what we all know is just around the corner when it comes to Near Field Communication. Especially in light of the talk I was fortunate to attend at Adobe Max. Given the following video, I think we’re about to think of things a little bit differently. Let me [...]
So busy the past few weeks I haven’t come up for air. Needed to post this though: Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo. Now for some commentary: When I first saw this I was extremely excited. As someone who carries their Moleskine around everywhere I’d love a more powerful and web-connected digital replacement. In [...]
Update: After shipping the broken watch back to Phosphor and a few weeks of back-and-forth with customer support, I now have a functioning replacement. 3 months later… My awesome phosphor watch. Just over one month old. Dead. RIP. I got so many compliments on the watch. From the highly readable display, to the funky time-telling [...]
Getty Images now has an interactive mood board generator. It’s a great start of an idea but isn’t precise enough to be totally useful. Whereas I appreciate a more general approach will facilitate the unexpected, when I tried to use this tool to generate for me mood boards for a project I’m working on it [...]