Dyson challenged its engineers to build machines that can fly and go through obstacles. Only Dyson-manufactured parts were allowed.
Dyson challenged its engineers to build machines that can fly and go through obstacles. Only Dyson-manufactured parts were allowed.
Smart TVs require that all the work is done on the TV itself, navigating features and media content remotely using all sorts of interface shenanigans. The device I’m holding is much more suited to that task, and it’s faster. And next year, it’ll be faster and better again. My TV set doesn’t get changed all that often, but the devices I carry do, and they get much better every generation. What I call empathic TVs don’t need all that interface. They don’t need tons of features per se. They simply need to be good at listening. More EQ, less IQ. They need to be eagerly waiting to receive instructions from the device I’m carrying. They’re just big screens that know what to do when I ask them to do something, and most importantly, where to get that content from directly.
It’s true that televisions should simply behave like big screens, not full-fledged media stations, as we already have those. Good thinking from Mark Wilson, writing on Medium.
Smart TVs require that all the work is done on the TV itself, navigating features and media content remotely using all sorts of interface shenanigans. The device I’m holding is much more suited to that task, and it’s faster. And next year, it’ll be faster and better again. My TV set doesn’t get changed all that often, but the devices I carry do, and they get much better every generation. What I call empathic TVs don’t need all that interface. They don’t need tons of features per se. They simply need to be good at listening. More EQ, less IQ. They need to be eagerly waiting to receive instructions from the device I’m carrying. They’re just big screens that know what to do when I ask them to do something, and most importantly, where to get that content from directly.
Famous burger recipes courtesy of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
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Famous burger recipes courtesy of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
The link source redirects you to a Flickr album where you can see Japanese manhole covers. They are amazingly designed.
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The link source redirects you to a Flickr album where you can see Japanese manhole covers. They are amazingly designed.
Paper Trails is a song from an upcoming album by Nicolas Jaar and his touring guitarist, Dave Harrington.
It’s out on the 8th of October.
Paper Trails is a song from an upcoming album by Nicolas Jaar and his touring guitarist, Dave Harrington.
It’s out on the 8th of October.
A powerful, wealthy selfie. Bill Gates with Bill Clinton.
Contrast with the reason people didn’t smile in old photographs.
Think.
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A powerful, wealthy selfie. Bill Gates with Bill Clinton.
Contrast with the reason people didn’t smile in old photographs.
Think.
Why didn't people smile in old portraits?
Why didn’t people smile in old portraits?
Robinson Meyer for The Atlantic:
“By the 17th century in Europe,” he writes, “it was a well-established fact that the only people who smiled broadly, in life and in art, were the poor, the lewd, the drunk, the innocent, and the entertainment.”
Indeed, not only were smiles of the middling sort, they breached propriety. In 1703, one French writer lamented “people who raise their upper lip so high… that their teeth are almost entirely visible.” Not only was this discourteous, he asked: Why do it at all? After all, “nature gave us lips to conceal them.”
They couldn’t really do selfies, that’s why.
Why didn’t people smile in old portraits?
www.theatlantic.com/technolog…
Robinson Meyer for The Atlantic:
“By the 17th century in Europe,” he writes, “it was a well-established fact that the only people who smiled broadly, in life and in art, were the poor, the lewd, the drunk, the innocent, and the entertainment.”
Indeed, not only were smiles of the middling sort, they breached propriety. In 1703, one French writer lamented “people who raise their upper lip so high… that their teeth are almost entirely visible.” Not only was this discourteous, he asked: Why do it at all? After all, “nature gave us lips to conceal them.”
They couldn’t really do selfies, that’s why.
Thoughts on the new Quora app
The new Quora app for iOS 7 was fully redesigned to take advantage of the new navigation paradigm offered by the new OS. It’s beautiful and the new navigation is really interesting.
Some changes, however, were perhaps slightly too radical.
• It is not clear that the Quora button on the top-left corner is a navigation button. Its position might reveal its purpose, but maybe there should be an indication that this button is tappable.
• When you tap on a question, the back button now is on the bottom-left corner which is rather unintuitive. You can however swipe from left to right to go back.
So, Quora Product team, if by any chance you are seeing this, explain these changes.
Thoughts on the new Quora app
The new Quora app for iOS 7 was fully redesigned to take advantage of the new navigation paradigm offered by the new OS. It’s beautiful and the new navigation is really interesting.
Some changes, however, were perhaps slightly too radical.
• It is not clear that the Quora button on the top-left corner is a navigation button. Its position might reveal its purpose, but maybe there should be an indication that this button is tappable.
• When you tap on a question, the back button now is on the bottom-left corner which is rather unintuitive. You can however swipe from left to right to go back.
So, Quora Product team, if by any chance you are seeing this, explain these changes.
Cord tacos will solve the problem of unruly wires. Back it on Kickstarter and ship me one (please).
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Cord tacos will solve the problem of unruly wires. Back it on Kickstarter and ship me one (please).
Over the course of your life, you have probably walked past hundreds of black widows without even realizing it. Each one packs enough venom to lay out a heavyweight boxer for days, yet globally only a few people each year are killed by widow bites.
If you ever wondered about how it felt like being bitten by a black widow, read this.