Context to this post here. On Friday I was invited into Google Labs New York and given the opportunity to try out Glass. I declined. Here’s why. There are …
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Line in front of this bank’s outdoor ATM. How we learn what distance is enough.
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In the first version of the home mapping service you sign-up online – google.com/homemap, century21.com/homemap – there’s a bunch of players out there – …
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After a few days in NYC back in China. One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that I coming back to is near-time facial …
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Curtains hung over the balcony, rather than inside the window. How does the motivation for curtain hanging differ in a culture where the distinction between private …
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Our Tokyo ground crew spent a week futoning it in a local apartment so the Llove Hotel served as our one-night-away break-out space – an …
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ATM viewed from the exact angle where display becomes to opaque to read. Privacy filters for mobile phones are common practice in the density of …
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Our local guides here schooled us on Afghan romance 101 – how boys/men and girls/women find ways to bridge the significant gulf between the sexes …
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The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but …
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That passport photo that you’re embarrassed to share with friends? That’s now open to public consumption thanks to Chinese immigration. All passports are scanned as …
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