The Mercury News has an article that pushes the idea that because hybrids are so quiet, they pose a risk to pedestrians who can’t hear them coming. The article goes to great lengths to state that this is the responsibility of either the pedestrian or the hybrid technology, but not one of the driver. [...]
My first iTunes Multi-Pass has been a less than stellar experience. I bought a multi-pass to The Daily Show yesterday. It downloaded immediately. So far, so good. Today, I come home to an email that says my next episode is available and will be downloaded when I open iTunes. So, [...]
Once you remove the monopolistic cable companies from the economics of television, there’s a whole lot of money left on the table. Apple is on track to take quite a bit of it by offering consumers what they’ve wanted all along: a la carte pricing not by channel, but by show.
Starting today [...]
Zeldman, whom I very much admire for his book Designing With Web Standards, seems to have a left a very bad example for the rest of the web development community when it comes to Internet Explorer 7 beta.
What’s he doing exactly? He’s concerning himself with incompatibilities between his site and IE7 beta.
If you’re wondering [...]
The Vessel love continues. It seems they’ve made a slightly altered version of their Time Tag: The Tempo Thermo Tag that tells the temperature. Nice.
Vessel solidifies their spot near the top of my industrial design list with the newly unveiled Luau portable lamp.
Looking like a modern interpretation of the old oil-fueled lantern, it’s lit by LEDs that are dimmable and give 6-10 hours of light when not charging on it’s base. It is, quite simply, the candela’s older [...]
NPR, a fantastic source of publicly funded content, is about to come to a critical juncture. As podcasts allow consumers to decide what they listen to and when they listen to it, NPR will have a difficult time injecting their five minute pleas for donations from the public.
The Solution? Choose Your Own Price
When [...]
Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital has created a hard drive with a transparent case so you can see the drive hard at work while it’s doing it’s job. It’s cool stuff and they brag like mad about it.
How We Did It
An engineering feat unrivaled in the annals of the hard drive industry. [...]
This is the year we’re finally going to get some wifi phones that don’t look like they were manufactured in 1989. (Seriously guys, what’s up with the monochrome screens?)
Linksys is going to be the first out of the gate with the WIP300 shipping this month. With support for SIPv2, 802.11b/g, POP3 email and [...]
Why Internet Explorer Sucks
Internet Explorer 6 sucks and there’s a clear reason why. They simply stopped working on it. After IE6 came out, Microsoft disbanded the product team. Let me repeat that. Having released Internet Explorer 6, they shut down the team and distributed it’s programmers to other parts of the [...]
