In hope of an iPhone…

Here is a phone from Synaptics. The coolest part about the phone? It has no keys, just one big touch screen canvas. I guess, if you are going to remove stuff in a drive for simplification, removing the key pad is about as far as you can go. On the other hand, this just puts […]

Software Factories

Now this is interesting. Jack Greenfield and Keith Short take on the future of software development: Total global demand for software will grow by an order of magnitude over the next decade, driven by new forces in the global economy like the growing role of software in social infrastructure, by new application types like business […]

Hyanide: My Tank Bike

I’ve posted before about my dream car, but I just found my dream bike: The Tank Bike. German designers Oliver Keller and Tillman Schlootz presented their extremely extreme personal tank concept for the 2006 Michelin Design Challenge, showcasing vehicles made especially for California’s diverse and often rugged topography. Hyanide’s tread contains 77 (holla!) identical plastic-covered […]

My WWDC Wishlist

After reading John Siracusa’s hilarious post about WWDC Buzz Word Bingo, I got to thinking about what I’d most like to see at WWDC. Here’s my list: 1. Make it brain dead simple to write multi-threaded applications. How simple? If my application runs fast on a dual core machine, I want it to run twice […]

Words Matter

When I wrote the title for this post, it seemed almost trite. I don’t mean it to be. The words we have at our disposal define the thoughts we are able to think. If you’ve learned another language and become fluent enough to think in that language, you know what I mean. I spent two […]