January 2011
Next gen iPads & iPhones to leverage NFC →
Apple’s plan to add near field communications (NFC) chips to its next generation iPhone and iPad products constitutes a major and hugely disruptive move into mobile payments, especially as iTunes already has credit card and purchase info.
The Electronic as Post-optimal Object
“The most difficult challenges for designers of electronic objects now lie not in technical and semiotic functionality, where optimal levels of performance are already attainable, but in the realms of metaphysics, poetry, and aesthetics, where little research has been carried out:
This is what differentiates the 1980s from 1890, 1909, and even 1949—the ability of industrial design and...
I Wish I Was A Polar Bear (Arctic Urgency Edit)
Intern for Art.sy’s Founder/CEO →
Great opportunity at premier art world internet start-up. More about Art.sy via TechCrunch: “Art.sy Raises $1.25 Million From Schmidt, Murdoch, Dorsey, And Super-Artsy Angels.”
Personal Manufacturing →
Interesting Cornell University report on 3D printing, open source hardware, “long tail” markets for custom goods, and the emerging economy of personal manufacturing.
“100 Other Lovers”- DeVotchKa via slashandburn
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap...”
– Steve Jobs
“As I think about Google’s strategic initiatives in 2011, I realize they’re all...”
– Eric Schmidt http://bit.ly/gKlB49
WatchNew @LadyGaga + Mugler Short Film
Social Animal →
Brilliant @NewYorker piece on the rise of neuroscience: “The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that emphasizes the relative importance of emotion over pure reason, social connections over individual choice, moral intuition over abstract logic, perceptiveness over I.Q. It allows us to tell a different sort of success story, an inner...
Brands Create Media Outlets Online, Bypassing... →
Good David Carr piece in the New York Times on fashion brands learning to think like media companies and the integration of content and commerce. As I’ve said before, the future of retail is editorial. And the future of editorial is retail.
“The networks are collapsing to Facebook and Twitter, just as railway gauge...”