by David | Aug 28, 2013 | technology, transportation, urbanism
Do you know what you were doing five years ago today? Well, according this this blog, I was in Santa Monica, but according to the MBTA, I was unboxing a brand new Charlie Card. I know this because today, five years later, that Charlie card, suddenly and without...
by David | Apr 28, 2013 | design, technology
No, really, who has got buttons? I was shopping for mobile phones and since the last time I did so, maybe a year ago, it’s like the industry has declared war on actual, real, physical, clicky, buttons. What’s up with that? I’m not talking about...
by David | Apr 21, 2013 | culture, design, media, photo, science!, technology
I’m calling the peak of the Instagram reto “film” filters thing. Soon enough that visual language will be dead as cupcakes. Recently I poked fun at Apartment Therapy for calling bathroom home offices a trend, and they had three data points to...
by David | Mar 12, 2013 | design, technology
Google, describing the new and mildly controversial high-end Chromebook Pixel, says this of its screen: “The 12.85” screen has the highest pixel density of any laptop, and a 3:2 photographic format designed for the web puts every one of those pixels to good...
by David | Mar 11, 2013 | design, science!, technology
Via Apartment Therapy and CNN Travel, news of a shower that aims to vanquish jetlag via light therapy. Why didn’t they think of this sooner? Just add some sunlight bright LEDs to a shower, what’s so hard? Sign me up, I say! I’m a big fan of light...
by David | Jan 22, 2013 | design, technology, travel
en MacBook cover, that is. Last month, I treated myself and my new MacBook to a spiffy cedar plank of a cover from Karvt. This month, I did some flying, and that included everybody’s favorite drill, take out your computer and put it in a bin all by itself. I...
