Here’s Lennart Ziburski’s very good concept for a smart watch. It’s simple, has a very focused purpose—get you information quickly without interrupting what you’re doing—and that’s it. Wearable computing is coming. (Via The Beard.)
Ken from Popehat: The United States government, under two opposed increasingly indistinguishable political parties, asserts the right to kill anyone on the face of the earth in the name of the War on Terror. It asserts the right to detain anyone on the face of the earth in the name
In January 1994, Rolling Stone interviewed Kurt Cobain (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kurt-cobain-the-rolling-stone-interview-19940127?print=true). The entire thing is fascinating, but I found what he had to say about where he saw Nirvana going the most interesting: That’s what I’ve
Here’s Steve Jobs on Google Maps in 2007: We’re not trying to do a lot of stuff… You’ve got to partner with people that are really good at stuff. … We don’t know how to do maps on the back-end, we know how to do the
Very good piece by Yuval Levin (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/326265/what-romney-said-and-what-he-didn-t-yuval-levin), prompted by Romney’s “47%” remarks: But I think the argument we’re actually having—or rather the disagreement that actually underlies our politics just now—is really
The new Fitbits automatically sync with your phone over Bluetooth 4.0. Awesome.
Automation of more and more tasks is coming. Here’s one more example: Baxter, the first product of Rethink Robotics, an ambitious start-up company in a revived manufacturing district here, is a significant bet that robots in the future will work directly with humans in the workplace. That is
In March, I announced Basil 1.0. Today, Basil 1.1 is available on the App Store. This version is more powerful, useful and… well, better. There’s twice as many supported sites, unit conversion for metric units users who want to cook American recipes with all of those teaspoons
Mat Honan describes the iPhone 5 as “the Toyota Prius of phone updates”: Yes, it’s better than the iPhone 4S or the iPhone 4 or just about any other phone you can buy. It’s faster with a bigger screen and an LTE antenna so you can suck up
Great piece about Quentin Hardy about how Amazon’s web services have changed computing: EdX, a global online education program from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, had over 120,000 students taking a single class together on A.W.S. Over 185 United States government agencies run some
Minxin Pei argues that by overestimating China’s strength, and the CCP’s grip on power, the U.S. is not thinking through potentialities for China’s future and how we should respond to them: The most consequential effect of this disconnect is the loss of an opportunity both to
Eli Dourado: This does not look like a market in which Apple’s competitors are successfully copying it. It looks like a market in which Apple’s competitors are trying to copy Apple, and failing. True, but Samsung’s become the most successful Android licensee in the market, at least