One century ago this month, commercial air flight took off. And before we know it, we could be flying in cars, or taking family vacations to space. As airline bigwigs convene in London to talk the future, we glance at the bumpy path that got us here.READ»
Cindy Romaine and I met
at Nike when we both worked in the Design Resources Group. She, Kevin Carroll
and I continue to connect and work together in the betterment of all we do, for
and within the ...READ»
Humans may be good as a general rule, sure, but it's hard to deny the inhumanity of the many pedestrians that left the so-called "homeless hero" to die on the streets of NYC after he saved a woman from a mugging two weeks ago. In an ...READ»
The Anne Frank Museum has launched a virtual tour of the house where the diarist hid from the Nazis during World War II. The reconstruction shows the Amsterdam house as it was over 60 years ago, and has a bunch of extra features, ...READ»
This weekend in Amsterdam you may see a whole bunch of people waving their smartphones around at once. It's the first social net/augmented reality flashmob, aka a fabulous way to combine three novel Net memes into one event.The ...READ»
The pod people Kevin McCarthy warned us about in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" are not the same ones living in those micro-hotels that are popping up across Europe and here in the U.S. It is a concept that seems to have been ...READ»
You can count on Marcel Wanders to unveil something eye-popping at the Milan Furniture Fair each year. Last year saw his Can-Can lamp for Flos--a dome filled with a ruffled underskirt like a chorine in the Folies Bergere; in 2008, he ...READ»
Love it or hate it, augmented reality is probably here to stay -- and we've got Claire Boonstra to thank. She's one of the cofounders of Layar, an augmented reality platform that is largely responsible for the considerable amount of buzz around AR in the last two years or so.READ»
Ubisoft has just released an augmented reality spin-off to promote the upcoming Xbox release of Splinter Cell: Conviction, and it's the first time such a major developer has used the Layar platform for a game. Players will have a ...READ»
Waldo could never hide these days. "There's all this openness now, thanks to location-aware apps and mobile devices," says Brady Forrest, chairman of Where 2.0, which will host industry leaders in San Jose to discuss everything from ...READ»
Last Sunday I had a stopover at the airport of Frankfurt, as I was flying from Ahmedabad in India to Amsterdam. I already had a boarding pass for my flight to Amsterdam and the gate was B7 at Frankfurt airport. We were early and our ...READ»
You can make anything from 3-D printing, from impossibly complex lamps to chain-mail bags to entire buildings. So it's actually kind of surprising that 3-D printed shoes aren't more common. Maybe someday soon: For her master's ...READ»
With all of the publicity that ramped-up security has gotten in wake of the underwear bomber, I assumed that I would experience a level of security intrusiveness to which I was unaccustomed on my recent flights to and from Europe. ...READ»
Shutter Island, slated to open today, will be director Martin Scorsese's fourth film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Their earlier collaborations' success have set a high, perhaps unmeetable bar.READ»
Most people get the three "R"s of green living: Reduce, reuse, recycle. Here's a fourth: Repurpose--As in turning a wine barrel into a hotel room or using glass bottles to decorate a temple. Repurposed buildings save material by ...READ»
What do 350,000 inter-galactic citizens, a spa in the
middle of a powerplant and a brilliant space age vocalist have in common? Iceland.
Most people think financial collapse when they think
Iceland. That’s a ...READ»
The Department of Homeland Security is not securing our safety from terror as we should expect. How should they approach this challenge to improve speed, accelerate collaboration and improve efficacy?READ»
East vs. West makes sense and North vs. South is an old school stretch, but England vs. Holland? While our picture of Europe might be all lovey-dovey, Nike has extended their Rivals Pack theme to encompass these two collaborations. ...READ»
By now you'll know all about the Christmas Flight 253 bomb attempt, and the draconian restrictions in place for in-bound U.S. flights. But do the TSA's emergency regulations make sense, or are they dumbly throwing us back into a ...READ»
Only 16% of internet users click on internet brand advertising. And that number is continually shrinking. Why? For the same reason TiVo is popular, people are blocking brand advertising from their media.
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