Smart German Supermarket
The BBC has a video report about a German supermarket Future Store from German supermarket chain, Real.
Rather than use RFID tags to do the scanning of all the …
Doctor's Note
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Peter Polaine at The Pin Mill Studio
Christmas Dinner by Peter Polaine
Quick plug for my dad, Peter Polaine, who has an exhibition of his woodcut prints on at The Pin Mill Studio in Suffolk at the …
Little Bits of Electronics
littleBits is an open source library of small electronic components that are already pre-assembled.
The very clever and cool thing about them is that they snap …
Cat and Mouse
Cats lack a knowledge of willing suspension of disbelief. When cat’s interact is that a cataract?
Is Twitter just a giant MOO/MUD?
Lambda MOO
The development of technology is more like a spiral than the upwards arrow we often think of. The same ideas come around again and again with slight …
The Future of Broadcasting and the BBC
Although I still agree with much of Mark Pesce’s take on the Future of Television, Stephen Fry neatly sums up the worth of the BBC in an interesting …
The Paper Web - Sketches of Web Services
Vimeo sketches by Sockyung ‘Sox’ Hong
If you read my post about wireframing and prototyping with paper you’ll love Sean Flannagan’s collection of …
Pinger - Voice-based Twitter?
Pinger is doing the rounds of Twitterland at the moment. It’s a service that allows you to send voice messages to one or a group of people anywhere from a …
Give my balloon a boost
I’m taking part in Orange’s Balloonacy internet balloon race. I’m not doing too badly at the moment, but you can give me a boost by clicking …
Google isn't making us dumb, but 'smart' is changing
It started with Asi’s comments on Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid? article. Forty-five minutes later I had Googled through …
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