I was reading my Kindle on the subway a few days ago when a passenger standing alongside interrupted me to ask how it worked. I found myself extolling the device's virtues, even as I acknowledged its shortcomings. Another passenger ...READ»
"Does this outfit still work?" That's a question I ask my wife way too often, after I pull out an older garment from my closet or drawer. Bell-bottom pants. Skinny ties. Pleated anything. Clothing goes in and out of style, rising in ...READ»
Ten years ago, before the iPod and the iPhone became objects of the world's electro-lust, Jonathan Ive sat down with Fast Company to talk about his first Apple blockbuster, the iMac. The machine could not have been a more radical ...READ»
When my father was a kid, his family had the first television on the block. Neighbors would come by just to watch the transmission signal. I was reminded of this family lore by Sony exec Steve Haber's comments about e-books in the ...READ»
This Month's Cover Story:Hollywood's Rogue Mogul: How Terminator Director McG Is Blowing Up the Movie Business, by Mark Borden, page 54
How the director known as McG, a master of music videos and guilty-pleasure TV, became a ...READ»
Social media is going to change the health-care industry just as radically as it changed entertainment, finance, and publishing. I know this to be true not because of any insider info or the research backing Chuck Salter's ...READ»
Last night the 2008 Dyson Product Design Awards were handed out in New York City. (Yes, that’s Dyson as in Sir James Dyson, TV’s most pretentious vacuum peddler.)
These prizes are awarded annually for inventions that ...READ»
“Anger and frustration are great starting points” for product design, James Dyson, inventor of the eponymous vacuum cleaner, told Fast Company’s Chuck Salter in an interview last spring. At the time, Dyson, who’s famously ...READ»
Will Paris Hilton's new cosmetics line survive her bad girl image? Will the Zune be a threat to the iPod? These were just a few of this year's business questions to be answered. Here we review ten business innovations, digital media products, and trends from 2006.READ»
Peter Yang
After majoring in journalism at the University of Texas, Yang spent four years at a newspaper in Austin. “It was a great experience shooting three assignments a day,” the 29-year-old photographer says. ...READ»
