It seems every city that has had a successful run of BarCamps / DemoCamps / *Camps has eventually slammed into a wall of controversy. Look at SM friend David Crow - he’s had more of his fair share of problems with the hugely popular Toronto Camps: stolen beer kegs, sexism, whinning about location, violent [...]
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Speaking of ugly, this week mad scientists have decided to save the frog from dissection by making their skin transparent. That way you can see inside without cutting them open. Uh, yuck! Next they plan on fusing in some glow in the dark genes.
Imagine if people were see through;
Doctor: “Yes I can [...]
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Other than Big Macs, there’s nothing I detest more than CLOWNS!! They should be banned, or burned, or burried. We must rid the planet of the pests!! Surely there must must be a Halo type XBox game where you can pick them off?? Advertising Age brings us this print ad [...]
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The readership that we have at SensoryMetrics is at times impressive. Usually it’s about 2 to 6 hundred people a day. However, our comments seem so low with only about 5 to 8 regular participants along with a few thousand spam comments which occasionally get past us. Of course, we probably also [...]
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Shiny Shiny alerts us to PodDater , an interesting twist on the online dating / social network scene. It’s essentially an ordinary dating site except your profile is an actual podcast that can be downloaded to your ipod. The usefulness of this escapes me, unless of course you want to carry videos [...]
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Industrial Designers have the strangest sense of humour! Here’s a concept by Tom Ballhatchet that was shown at last week’s Up All Night show in London. Solves all sorts of problems: identity theft, global warming, high utility bills…
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Some product switches frustrate their users by being difficult to use because they lack tactile feedback. Did you turn it on? If you have to look at the switch to see if it’s on or off, chances are it’s missing that important haptic component. Feedback through touch is an important component that [...]
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Yesterday was the launch day for Pixelmator a Mac OS X graphic application which meets my Photoshop needs. Yes, I really will be giving up on Adobe Photoshop for Pixelmator. In fact, I think Pixelmator surpasses Photoshop with its User Interface elegance. These are my initial impressions after using the application for [...]
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Imagine being able to leave a message for a specific person when they call you but you’re not there to answer.
Call tagging was one of my voice mail service enhancements suggestions I had back in 1997. When one of your friends call you, they receive a personalized greeting from you welcoming them by name, [...]
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Back in 1988, many urban centers had newly installed digital switches from their regional telephone companies. One of the possible services was sending the telephone number of the calling party to the called party. There was a chicken and egg problem though. You needed a special device to display the number, and [...]
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