Andy Polaine
New writing section
So, I’m thinking of moving to WordPress (shock horror - after all that hassle setting up MT?) as I quite like the Page/Post structure of it. in the …
Writing & Thinking
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 …
Playing Superman
So, did my second skydive today and it was even better than the one a few years ago. This time I actually remember the first ten seconds - check out the vein …
WEARHEAD*PHONE from Hulger
] Another great piece of headgear thinking from my mate Nik Roope at Hulger. the WEARHEAD*PHONES are part of a show called Hearwear at the Victoria & Albert …
Nice Viral Big Ad Campaign for Carlton Beer
Continuing a very amusing trend for sending up crap advertising, Carlton Beer just released this Big Ad campaign. Visual effects by my old-flame (geddit?) …
Comment problems
There seems to be some problem with comments on my blog. Some people manage it whilst others never get posted. They all go through an approval process as I was …
Optimus OLED keyboard - smart object of desire
Ah, good product design, I love it when it’s done so well. This OLED keyboard, the Optimus, from Russian design house Art. Lebedev Studio is a brilliant …
London Bombs
Phew. What a weird 48 hours that was. As far as I know everyone I know is okay, though I have many friends in London that I haven’t heard from, so I hope …
Google Scholar increases book sales
I work at a University as most of you will know and the issue of “Google culture” amongst students when researching comes up all the time. So …