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Purity in Form

Kyoto: photo booth
Wonderfully pure example of an photo booth, from Kyoto. Ki-Re-i = beautiful.



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17 Oct 2010

In: Kyoto
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Motivations for Monitoring

17 Oct 2010

In: Ashgabat, Design Inspiration
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Article on the MIT Technology Review on remote monitoring of mobile phones – recording data and phone use, battery life. Remote diagnostics is nothing new …
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Remote Notification

17 Oct 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Seoul
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A remote notification object (previously known as a pager), popular in South Korean cafes. It’s interesting how the form (octagonal, flat, fits awkwardly into pocket, …
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Urban Textures

13 Oct 2010



Mobile Vend

13 Oct 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Seoul
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That paying for vending machine content through mobile not hugely popular says more than that it is.
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Inconveniencer and the Inconvenienced

13 Oct 2010



Some of you are old enough to remember address books that aren’t connected – when the loss of a little black book or mobile phone …
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Urban Interfaces

12 Oct 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Seoul
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SOS button. And this from Switzerland.
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On the Rocks

12 Oct 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Seoul
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The optimal ice-cube shape for chilling a glass of 18 year old malt whisky? A perfectly rounded, hand chipped ball of ice, cooling the glass …
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How We Read the City

11 Oct 2010



In Seoul for a couple of days – meetings and a refresher on the mobile landscape. One example of the hyper-connected city? The taxi’s sat-nav includes …
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Objects That Suggest Tasks

11 Oct 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Munich
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There’s a beautiful, suggestive symmetry to this space. How the mere presence of objects suggests the other tasks that the user is likely to want/need …
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