There is a lot to like in the work of Texas architectural firm Lake/Flato. A lot to admire. Buildings rest easy on the ground respecting their environment. These buildings are authentic. A series of pavilions or spaces with wide overhangs, shade loving, warmth hugging, real.
There is a lot to like in the work of Texas architectural firm Lake/Flato. A lot to admire. Buildings rest easy on the ground respecting their environment. These buildings are authentic. A series of pavilions or spaces with wide overhangs, shade loving, warmth hugging, real.
Oh this this is too cute…
Have you ever missed an important announcement from a friend because you only check Twitter late in the day and couldn’t be bothered to scroll through 8 hours of posts from your friends? Did feel guilty when your feeble “congratulations!” Tweet was sent 2 days late when you found out your buddy got married? Would you like to build your very own robot army? Then this is a post for you!
I need a more impressive office chair, I’ve been spoilt by a Herman Miller Aeron Chair, but this new model from Knoll looks mighty fine (and hugely expensive of course!)
Generation by Knoll offers a new standard of comfort and unrestrained movement, supporting the range of postures and work styles typical of today’s workplace. Designed by Formway Design, Generation takes the idea of elastic design—where a product rearranges itself in response to its user—to a new level.
This is my new laptop backpack, perfect for the light traveller with the small laptop (ie any widescreen 12inch notebook), it’s very comfortable and discreet, but I would recommend getting a laptop sleeve as the padding isn’t enough to inspire confidence in an accident
If you’re anything like me (and my bag half full of cables) you might be interested in this seriously short iPhone dock cable
Simplify your desk and life with these short USB to dock connector cables. Connects your iPhone or iPod to USB on your Mac or Windows PC to charge and sync. Comes in black or white, in 7cm or 22cm lengths.
Fantastic little experiment into how people react the different calls to action, a recommended read…
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to improve user experiences. Sometimes, I take my ideas and create experiments to get hard data about how users behave in the real world.
For the past few months, I have been performing an experiment on this site.
At the bottom of most posts here, there’s a phrase with a link to my Twitter account. I had originally added this as an informational message, but it ended up being more effective than I expected. I started to wonder if I could increase the clickthrough rate even more by altering the way it was worded.
The USB 2.0 device captures life in 1,280 x 720 HD resolution at 30 frames per second, with auto focus, 4x digital zoom, a noise-canceling mic on top, and something called ClearFrame for smoother video, somehow.
via Microsoft’s LifeCam Cinema HD webcam lets you film those YouTube confessionals in 720p.
By 2013, San Francisco is planning to construct 360 new Muni bus stops that’ll further the causes of both solar power and blanketed Wi-Fi at the same time.
via San Francisco Bus Stops to Offer Free Solar-Powered Wi-Fi – Solar power bus stop – Gizmodo.
