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Google’s Self-Driving Car: Blind driver Steve Mahan User #1

03.30.12 | Permalink | Comment?

Pretty amazing stuff. I just wonder how the driver chooses where to go, probably well integrated nav system and place search  

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Remote, collaborative sketching and ideation

02.27.12 | Permalink | Comment?

Ran across this on the 8Shapes site. Brilliant. Love the technique and webcam tool.  http://www.eightshapes.com/blog/2011/08/19/sharing-sketches-remotely/  Pretty great methods here, would love to grab one of these IPEVO cams ($70).  We struggled with a webcam and tripod to do remote mobile demos, and this would do the trick ideally. Along with the added benefit of easy [...]

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Windows 8 Logo – Nice work

02.18.12 | Permalink | Comment?

Redesigning the Windows Logo A pretty interesting new logo for Windows 8. I like the simplicity, a bit of perspective, clear reference to new Win8 UI tiles, and most for the reference to the Windows 1.0 logo. Nice work Pentagram. 

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Twitter’s “#lazyweb” … or the “#humancuratedweb

07.05.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Interesting post and info graphic: http://www.fastcodesign.com//1664402/infographic-of-the-day-how-twitter-exposes-googles-limits I’ve done this before, just posted a questions to my Twitter/Facebook feed, hoping for a good recommendation on a restaurant or product purchase. As I comented on the post: #lazyweb is part of it, but, as you note, I’d propose it’s something like the #humancuratedweb that’s prompting these requests. [...]

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Ah, the iCloud…

06.08.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Just read this great post about Apple and Google and their versions/spins on the Cloud. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/08/apple-icloud-google-cloud/ With iPad/iPhone and now OS X Lion, you don’t save documents anymore. They save automatically — but an easier way to think about it is that they just exist, as is, in realtime on all your devices. … They just [...]

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