Some days simply work better than others – the extended research team fans out to gather data from some of the 32.8 million Chongqingites and …



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Advertising boards strategically placed on Taipei’s streets. It may not look like much but this is the future. Why? Because nobody paid to rent the space …
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he smell of Playdoh triggered strong childhood memories. We’re already heading down the trail of cradle-to-grave-rich-meta-data. How will information about your past experiences – be called …
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As with Japan its common to take off your shoes entering a Thai apartment. A foowear behaviour extending into this workplace – a library worker …
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During yesterday’s TED talk I proposed that from a design perspective a potential solution to pretty much every design problem is delegation – getting other …
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But what functionality does the key hole represent? And what is the cost of finding out? The way in which an object is inserted into another …
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Your company makes widgets and like most of the online planet many of your staff use one of the popular search engines to effectively go …
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Friends of mine recently moved in a modern Tokyo apartment, that included amongst its other mod-cons a remote control to operate the toilet. Control panel’s …
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A stopover in Chengdu to round off this Chinese leg of my journey starts out innocently enough propping up, and playing go with the regulars …
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An intriguing keynote presentation by Oxford University’s Dominic O’Brien of at the World Wireless Research Forum on using solid state lighting to transfer data. Background …
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