Tag Archives: Technology
Guilty chills
Just installed the window air conditioner and I’m feeling guilty. Our house was built in the 20s, and has decent cross-ventilation. I shouldn’t need air conditioning. It is supremely unstylish and unromatic. When picturing myself in the middle of a Maugham story–which I do more often than I would like to admit–I keep thinking a […]
Handy I/O
As devices become increasingly mobile, the interfaces are also smaller and smaller. I was thinking this morning (in the shower, where I usually do my day’s thinking) about how to make more effective input devices. Way back in my undergrad days, there was a lot of talk about the direction of chording keyboards and the […]
DoCoMo 2010
Once you get past the cheesy voiceover*, DoCoMo’s video. demonstrating their vision for 2010, is very interesting. It would have been perfect for my course at UW, where students had to envision the world at 2010 (or 2008, depending on the section :). Definitely worth a watch. (via Yu-Tsui) * I’ve often wondered about this. […]
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