This kind of thing has got to be the future of files and folders so long as we have files and folders: the Innolab 3D File Manager from Adam Miezianko, Kristopher Rambish, Karen Fung, Zavnura Pingkan at Boston University. (Thanks, visualcomplexity.com) This design is like a ferris wheel which organises contents by their relationships rather than … Read more
I’m surprised this is not bigger than it is: the device that lets every woman be a man. Better known as the Whiz: “Its unique shape was tested by over 1,400 women in clinical trials and since then by thousands of women of all ages, from all walks of life. When held properly the Whiz … Read more
A friend pointed me to aSmallWorld, the networking site that will only take members invited by other members (my friend wasn’t a member.) I can understand the benefits of this (I have hundreds of contacts on LinkedIn but know about two of them) but it was the service’s blurb that amused me — I can’t … Read more
Seth Godin comments on the world class violinist ignored by commuters in the subway. His conclusion (I think): we all ignore because in our world of natural suspicion we rely on marketing to flag what is and isn’t valuable. True, I guess. What scares me too, is the possibility that we wouldn’t have even been … Read more
This week’s WSJ.com column (behind a subscription wall, I’m afraid) is on how we need to get ready for the day when chatbots go out and do our bidding for us. Literally, possibly, but if nothing else to go out and do the pre-flirting bit of online dating. clipped from online.wsj.com Expect a future where … Read more