Japanese ATM interface – with two bowing staff members after an ATM card has been declined.
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A beautifully minimal phone kiosk design – doesn’t include a coin-return slot. The explicit design choice of a one-way direction of coins assumes a 100% …
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As I found out the hard way with my first summer job – the cost of putting diesel in a petrol tank is that the …
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A familiar sight in the (toilet-bowl-using) world over. But it could and ultimately will, be so much more. Expat discussions about toilets in Japan tend to center …
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I came across this tap attached to a water barrel during our getting-to-know-how-a-city-wakes-up walk around Old Delhi. I’ve been trying to figure out whether the …
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If you’re an early riser, drive a car to work and are an heavy iPod user then you’ve probably been confronted with a drained car …
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A sign at a local Sangenjaya fire station extols residents to install a fire alarm. Is the speaking alarm simply artistic license by the local …
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Next time you’re driving through the Kyzylkum Desert you can relax safe in the knowledge that the driver of that veering oncoming vehicle is probably …
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Necessary complexity? More domestic UI bliss.
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