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Mobile Hotspot! YES!
29Jul09
There are some, indeed there are many people across the world that would love to have a mobile intelligent hotspot right in their pockets to endure the virtues of connectivity on the go. For that lot of people, Novatel Wireless has introduced the MiFi 2372 HSPA, which is the latest version of its Mobile Hotspot with multi-mode operation that includes HSPA, UMTS, EDGE and GPRS. This device has the ability of creating a personal cloud of high-speed internet connectivity which can be shared over a bunch of users and Wi-Fi enabled devices such as cellphones. It promises (for the reviews are yet to come) data speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps downlink and 5.76 Mbps uplink-which is really fast for a portable connectivity device. The thingamajig comes with Novatel’s proprietary NovaSpeed technology which steps up a gear for videos, online games, multiple downloads etc. It can also double up as a storage device for there are relevant capabilities integrated.
take your wifi anywhere! AWESOME!
via Novatel Wireless Unveils Its Latest Mobile Hotspot, MiFi 2372 – Cell Phone Beat.
Stereo System – the PEG PUZZLE
29Jul09Toocute
Everything is in its right place. Every element has its own home. A special form fit dock for charging each piece of the Peg Puzzle Player.
via GEARFUSE » Peg Puzzle Player Modular Stereo System.
and Home Tone.
The Apple Balance
29Jul09I came across this article.
(excuse my writing, i just speed write cause i don’t have the time to proofread.)
It is a bit long but i found it to be very informative about how an organization like Apple works. I love their twist of words saying Apple = Innovation. Which could be true, but one thing they did not mention and this refers for most corporations is passion. Look at Nike, most of the people who work at Nike run as a way to relax. Nike looks for employees that are active because they are their best consumers of products. In theory, corporations need to hire people who love their activities that the company produce but are never satisfy with what current products are doing for their activities’ satisfaction. It is part of evolution, we can not make or design the perfect product without mistakes, errors, deadends. A product to become “perfect” will need to go through several stages to help designers and coworkers (personally i think everyone is a designer if they have passion) to understand their confusion and to realize a better vision.
Most people talk talk talk… for my background of german traits, we don’t talk…. we do… talking is a bit abstract to make into action. And talkers need designers cause designer does both. talk and do, or another words they talk and “doodle.” Sketching is way to bridge the talkers with the doers. As an artist starting in a school like risd, they love to “TALK” and it does not matter as a student – how unskilled their project looks, they want to see the idea in the project. They value talking with a twisted balance of doing. So for 18 years of “doing habits” i had to retrain my thinking to talk about the idea.
so for most organizations i feel they been in to many talking situations with no bridge between what they are talking about and what they are actually doing. Apple succeeds at this balance, and it does not matter if you the consumer love the product or hate it, as long as your employees love what they are producing that is most important, cause they will use viral marketing getting their friends to buy the product and their friends and their friends. etc etc.
This explains why our American auto industry sank… their employees never took pride in their work and get their friends to buy the products they built.
my rule of thumb, you should not look for smart people. you need to find passionate people with sharp minds.
they will have plenty of fuel to keep their energy going and they are sharp to pay attention to details with questions.
Wii and phone combine….
27Jul09these pictures make me laugh but it does have a point about the gaming phones of the future… WII power!
Designers and their stories!
22Jul09I found this article to be very direct and short to the point about the meaning and definition of storytelling by designers. Why it is needed and the value everyone can get from it. The link to the full article is below.
In my view, design is not just about making things. Design is a social, collaborative activity. The day when one person conceived, developed, produced, and sold a designed object is largely gone. Much design — particularly interaction design — occurs in the context of a large organization, or is distributed among a number of smaller organizations. Design is a distributed social process, and, as such, communication plays a vital role.Consider some examples. A key part of interaction design involves communicating effectively with the intended users. The more effectively the design team can elicit needs from users, get feedback on various prototypes, etc., the better the final design. Similarly, there is a requirement for effective communication within the design team. Team members must reflect on the state of the design, develop critiques of problems, suggest alternative solutions, and so forth. Particularly in interaction design, where team members may be drawn from a variety of backgrounds, good communication is vital. Finally, the design team must communicate effectively with the larger organization of which it is a part. No design can really be said to be successful if it doesn’t make it out the door. The team must succeed in convincing upper management of the design project’s validity a process which may be repeated throughout the life cycle of the design, and, if successful, the team must be able to communicate the key aspects of the design to those who will implement, manufacture, market, and distribute it.
via Storytelling.html.
Wall mounted apartment
16Jul09this is 2funny… i love the creativity.
more pictures and bigger at the link on the bottom.
Dollar ReDe$ign Project
16Jul09I miss out on this but i still can see why we can’t still keep posting ideas for a new currency. Seriously we been needing a newal a long time, the whole dollar coin is one example of no design common sense! no one accepted the one dollar coin cause it feels like a quarter! but this is a good example how to flat line the country to see what their citizens want for a new money currency. I LOVE IT!
here are some examples:
AVID remake
14Jul09This i have to say is the BEST brand logo remake I have seen today! this represents the 21st logo design. very sync with energy….
At the center of Avid’s brand identity is a new logo composed of simple geometric shapes derived from the buttons, icons and markers that consumers and professionals recognize as fundamental to the digital audio and video solutions they use every day to enable their creativity. The new logo forms a visual connection to iconic shapes that represent “volume up, volume down, play, pause, record and forward,” signaling a unification of the company’s core audio and video offerings. The distinctive mark also spells out the company’s name in abstract letterforms.
