SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

There’s eight food groups that really count!
Toys - Corn - Butter - Beer - Music - Steaks - Cakes - Apple.
In that order!
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You’ve probably seen these things: beer coolers that double as motorized scooters. Manufactured by Cruzin Cooler of America, they offer three models: 300, 500 watts electric, and a 33cc gas-powered version. If you’ve got a “supersize me” kind of frame, you’ll want to opt for the gas model which can carry a [...]

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SM friend Alec Saunders’ has the best perspective on the new iPhone that I’ve seen yet (in the past 12 hours, anyhow…)
Favourite quote:
I think RIM has to play catch-up on the handset, but I expect they can and will do that. The bigger issues to me are the structural ones around business model and marketing. [...]

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It’s June 5th, and according to the UN, it’s a nice day to WED - World Environment Day. Where do you start? 1. Give up those power-sucking Sony Playstations & MS Xboxes and buy a Wii. 2. Give up those power-sucking PCs and buy a Mac.
According to an Australian power study Sony’s [...]

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Strange things happen when your parents decide to clean out their basement and offer up vintage junk they’d been hoarding! This past weekend, I acquired a Jackson Instruments Model 648A portable dynamic tube tester (circa 1948 - maybe). Now I’m looking for some tubes to test!!
“Tubes? What are tubes?? [...]

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You’ve probably heard already of Tin Eye. We just got our entry into their beta… beta late than never!!
It’s a Toronto-based startup that’s re-inventing image search>> you upload an image, Tin Eye finds the matches. This is a bonus for web designers and publishers who need to know [...]

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If you’re waking up in either the Netherlands or Holland this morning, you’ll be celebrating Commodore Day. Yep - this is the official day of adulation for the once-proud computer maker. The day is intended to remember Commodore’s glorious past…long before the legal brothels of Amsterdam… you could occupy yourself playing endless rounds [...]

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Well who knows what Hasbro / Mattel might think of Scrabulous… this game has wings!
From our loft in downtown Manhattan, it’s a hit… Coming soon… wall-mounted velcro Super Smash Bros!!
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Have you tired of the MicroHoo hype yet?
According to the Washington Post, Blockbuster wants to buy Circuit City. Why? Well, maybe there’s not a lot of action at Blockbuster these days - with iTunes, Netflix, and Zip stealing all the media distribution glory.
Blockbuster’s vision with this plan is nothing less than spectacular: imagine [...]

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Here’s a fun little contest run by Canada.com. The 10 questions were a little too easy - but hey… an XBox is on the line. So just try and beat my 10/10 score! (closes April 30, 08)
Further in the matter of technophile or technophobe… Here are other techno-afflictions from UrbanDictionary:
Technolopheliac: One who [...]

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