Business Week’s latest issue has an interview with Sony’s new CEO, Kazuo Hirai, who became Sony’s CEO in April and built his reputation by building Playstation into a power brand. While Sony is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading brand names, it’s become something of a...
While it’s very easy to point a finger at Kodak for missing the digital revolution, but those who did make the jump, Canon and Nikon face a serious challenge for their own survival from smartphones. The revolution in computing power and miniaturization now means capable cameras can now be found...
Author Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom) does not appear to have many positive things to say about technology, in fact, he’s something of a Luddite. In a recent talk given at the Hay Festival in Columbia, Franzen argues that e-books are bad for both the reader and the writer,...
Microsoft’s Kinect has been massively successful, originally built as a reactive response to Nintendo’s Wii, it’s a technology that’s been hacked, played with and manipulated way beyond its original intent. Microsoft has no idea of its potential, but when hackers played,...
Old, but good- the Portlandia team did a great job of dramatizing the problem of tech overload.
Take a look at the video below from Gracenote and you will see an application to select music by mood. It’s an interesting idea and mood is something you see being played with by all kinds of designers from cars to hotel rooms. The idea of giving the user the opportunity to customize the...
The last 24 hours in the life of HP has been dramatic.. - They reported poor results - Talked about pulling out of PCs - Walked away from Web OS- and then changed its mind - Acquired a UK software company for $10 billion The effect has been to devastate the company’s share price (down 20%...
At LucidNYC’s event last night, I was fortunate enough to hear James Pattern talk about bringing more tactile experiences to technology. James has been at the forefront of making tech experiences more engaging and physical for the past decade. His inspiration came from working in the world of...
One of the most appealing aspects of the proliferation of new technological channels has been the ability for content creators to allow their content to be accessed on new these new formats. The traditional hardware of old has now given way to multiple increasingly mobile forms. However, the simple...
Netbase is one of dozens of companies that measure social media. They out together a handy graphic to measure what they define as "brand passion" based out of social conversations.What's interesting to see in the tech space is how not unexpectedly, Apple and Twitter dominate the passion zone and to...
Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.The documentary of the Arduino story might not be the most compelling piece of non-fiction story telling since Grizzly Man, but it's a fascinating tale that chronicles the rise of an open-source platform that allows people to play and...
Living in a real-time world, the future seems to be happening in front of our eyes at such a dizzying pace, it's tough to make sense of it all. GBN is a Northern California think-tank that's been making sense of the future for decades. They were even consultants on movie "The Minority Report" and...
Everyday it seems like a new canvas emerges that could provide a potential opportunity for engagement. Faced with the rapid pace of change, we sometimes forget about how we can use the technology that already exists, but in a better way.A great example is how Arcade Fire, them again!, thought about...
There's a great film going around the web right now, that's basically a recruitment ad for Twitter. It's probably the first piece of communication the brand has done and it gives a real flavor of the place, it's people and its culture. It's also pretty cool, ripping off a scene from the movie...
Pepsi must have dozens of agencies working on its behalf to bring it new ideas on a regular basis, but it appears the brand isn't content relying on these guys for its tech ideas, so it's created its own forum for technologists to bring their ideas directly to the brand. The PepsiCo 10 is a two-day...