Here’s a bit of advertising for the new Alice book for the iPad. It’s pretty darn cool. A whole layer of activity on top of the text. It’s heading in the right direction.
Still more meaningful interaction would be so much better. Interaction that really illuminates to content not just bells and whistles. I have high expectations in this new space. We need someone like Cyan who originally created Myst to step up and shift the expectations in this reading environment.
If Alice in Wonderland was the text and an interactive experience like Myst imagine the experience!
You can download Myst for your iPhone and you can now play the next level of Myst online here.
Loved my SX-70. Finding this video on the web actually made me a bit sad.
This camera created a paradym shift in photography. Instant and high quality the SX-70 was a joy to use. This film made by the Eames Office to explain the technology and uses for the camera. It is a wonderful little film. It is inspiring from a product and design view. The Eames office took a liking to explaining complicated concepts.
Enjoy a technology of the past that set the bar for the future.
I would buy this device. I know it only does books – a one trick pony. But it let’s you lend your books to others and it doesn’t look like a Texas Instruments calculator. This device looks like BN hired some product designers and some interface designers, and a marketing crew that knows how to do point-of-purchase.
Barnes and Noble have listened to the criticism of the Kindle and have brought a more sophisticated and attractive device into the fray.
The price is reasonable from the start.
Design is clean.
Multi-touch.
Color navigation panel (for swiping through book covers, a la iTunes)
You can buy it in a BN store. (many distribution points – one a few blocks from me)
You can browse digital books
You can lend your book to others on a number of devices
It has a memory expansion slot
It can play MP3′s
It can read PDF’s (essential)
Did I mention that the design is clean? The device is a bit thicker and weighs more than the Kindle. The other important part is moving away from proprietary formats.
Lending is good.
I’ll be heading down to the Barnes and Noble to check it out. I’ll let you know if I am as impressed when I can touch it.
Having done this kind of work for more years than I’m actually interested in admitting to – this video stripped away the intellectual and considered part of the process for me.
Craig is here for the month. My brother is happy to be on vacation from his sheltered workshop. Three whole weeks! That doesn’t mean there isn’t work to do.
Yesterday Mr C. did lots of labels for moving our office.
What if every object could tell its own story? Haven’t you wished that you could just google anything? Well if you use RFID you can get information from any object that has an electronic tag. Each object in a way is a smart object.
If you have a reader attached to a device like a smart device, in this case an iPhone. You can come in proximity of the object and tell you the object’s story. It’s pretty interesting technology that can be used say for touring museums. You step up to a painting or sculpture and put your iphone next to the label. It recognizes the painting and allows you to see content about the work. Add links to sources on the net and an expantion of information based on your interests.
Been working on the design of the new Heavybubble HQ. This space will server as studio, HQ, and gallery for exhibitions. This is one of my earlier renderings using the marvelous free SketchUp from Google. To see more of the design process of the new space head over to the artlog.
Do you usually pay to be a beta tester? Not me. I usually get something free for debugging somone’s product.
Well today Amazon released the bigger dog of their reader and will charge you about $500 bucks for a device that looks like a cardboard prototype of a technology product from the 80′s.
Expectations for electronic devices are considerably more sophisticated than what the Kindle offers. Now of course Amazon is just warming up the market for a smart innovative company like Apple or a smart startup to take over much like Apple did with the iPod. I actually think that Amazon doesn’t care. Amazon is all about the distribution chain. They want to sell you the content not the device. They just created the device to create more interest in reading. Certainly the publishing industry doesn’t understand how to do that. But will this actually reinvigorate the reading market? That remains to be seen.
I have admired Maya Lin’s work for two decades. The thoughtfulness, the scale, and the amazing balance of the discipline of architecture and the emotional vocabulary are controlled yet create both visceral reactions that then trigger intellectual responses.
Her investigation of water/waves and their distinct states have created internal conversations that have manifest themselves in my hieroglyphics that have come after Egyptian Waters.
I dream of walking on the waters, floating in the space between the waves.
Now I will make the equivalent of a pilgrimage to the Wave Field at Storm King. I will walk on the waves, I will lie and stand between the waves unable to see beyond the lead wave or the following one. I will photograph my point of view. I will capture video of the changing light. I will stand on the waters suspended in time.
My sister always sends us terrific cuttout or popup cards. You can’t get rid of them they become a decoration for the next year. Actually until the paper just gives up. This is a favorite because it can sit in some unexpected place. It has a small footprint with very pleasant geometry.
I enjoy watching Santa near the rooftops while I make my morning coffee and look for the snowflakes that signal that it really is winter.
Ok, I just had to post this onto my wish list. I need a pack that serves all my needs now that I’m walking to work. The other bags that I have server specific needs. I need a new architecture.
I’m looking for a bag that starts off light when it’s empty. I’m not sure if this fits the bill. Why don’t sites tell you how much the bags weighs empty?
Anyone have any suggestions for a slim backpack with plenty of pen storage space too? I carry lots of writing implements with me all the time.
While General Motors has been plodding along and burning through the dollars developing its Chevrolet Volt “extended-range” electric vehicle (now due in late 2010), Mini, with help from its parent, BMW, took a mere 10 months to develop the Mini E.
Why does our auto industry find it so hard to respond to the needs of its potential customers? Not only has Mini responded they have done it quickly.
The battery takes up a little too much space but mini will work it out. I want one.
