Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

At the REFRESH! conference in Banff.

I’m currently in Banff in Canada for the REFRESH! conference. It looks like an interesting line-up of people here to dissect new media’s often …

New Feedburner Feed

I’ve changed my subscription feed to a Feedburner feed (see the link in the sidebar) in an attempt to tidy things up a bit. Subscriptions to the old feed …

Why Apple's iPod design is smarter than it looks

John Welch’s article about iDevelopers creating accessories for the iPod is enlightening. He makes a great case (no pun intended, and if you don’t …

High Speed Photography of Balloon Popping

Amazing high speed photography images of people popping balloons at Make Magazine’s session at Foo Camp 05. It’s incredible how much of the …

Guitar Shred Show

I have just idled away far too much time playing with the Guitar Shred Show. Very amusing animation, nicely woven into a story and the most rockingly rock …

Smart lightbulb sends SMS when blown

So now Fujitsu have developed a lightbulb that sends you a text message when it’s blown. Aparently it does this via some kind of code in the bulb that …

Why no research here?

Okay, so everyone seems to have been asking me why none of my work or research is published here. I wish I could say it’s because it’s so super …