Archive for July, 2008
Design Thinking
An interesting piece of paper in the BusinessWeek approaches the notion of “Design Thinking” by taking the example of Procter and Gamble (P&G).
Procter & Gamble (PG) is using the approach to change its culture. Leadership is listening, learning, and deploying; cross-functional teams are cracking vexing problems across its business landscape; and visualization, prototyping, and iteration [...]
SenseSurface: Knobs on the Screen?
I was pointed out to this funny concept called SenseSurface by Fred Beecher.
The main idea is to attach physical controls such as knobs magnetically to an LCD screen, Thanks to a magnetic overlay attached behind the screen. The system is able to senses the knobs position and send the information to a particular [...]
Watchmen: the movie
On of my all time favorite picture novel adapted by the director of “300″. Hopefully they did not screw the spirit of the comic.
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
I was pointed to this interesting piece by Nicolas Carr providing an interesting (although wordy as stressed by Oleh Kovalchuke on the IxDA forum) food for thoughts. The main idea are quoted hereafter:
I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be [...]
AoC woth a DDR-pad
Some hacker adapted à Dance-Dance Revolution foot-pad to play Age of Conan. The idea is quite interesting but it should integer a sit-mode.
Video-to-go: Watching the Watcher
In an interesting piece of paper a July 2006 issue of the Newsweek, Jonnie Roberts questioned the very new but still established (pardon me the oxymoron) of digital video consumption habits almost 2 years ago. The main impulse was probably given by the lunch of iTunes TV at that time making a lot of buzz. [...]
Save or Publish?
Probably the small amount of my blogger-readers will say “huuuuu what a Noob, he’s not using blogging clients LoL§§”, but there is something I found quite annoying about the wordpress posting interface on the 2.2.2 version (what is funny is that it is was actually not the case in the 1.5 version I’m using now [...]
