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May 2nd
With our limited specs, it was a lot of hard work to make a machine with clumsy graphics compared to today’s systems. However, this gave room for the player’s imagination to roam. With the Famicom, each player has their own view of the game’s world, creating a deeper universe.
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May 1stYour Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface
Our bodies don’t have to become marionettes to that technology. If anything, it should be the other way around.
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April 24th
Now, instead of 80 percent of its efforts being unenlightened, just 20 percent are unenlightened.
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April 18th
Privately, one OEM source told me that Microsoft is “destroying” the PC industry, while another claimed that Windows 8 has “handed over millions of customers to Apple.
–Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, for ZDNet. John Gruber -
You Lookin’ at Me? Reflections on Google Glass.
by Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at Frog
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April 16th
BionicOpter by Festo, a biomimetic dragonfly-inspired flying object.
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April 13th
★ @mikeloukides: It’s an app you install from the web… even on iOS. Creating quality web apps for iOS: good design article http://bit.ly/159lFdo
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April 12thGoogle: Plan your digital afterlife with Inactive Account Manager
Google addresses a critical part of data stewardship that is all-too-often overlooked.
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April 10th
Hummingbird is a new music notation system designed to ease comprehension.
I’m not sold on the pitch symbols as-is, but I applaud the effort.
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April 8th
The company’s experts were lodged in silos, and the only people who could see the whole picture of their offering were their customers.
–From an excerpt to Service Design: From Insight to Implementation.
