It can totally kill technology when your kids are too curious about the new gadget in town. If you haven’t been through this yet, here are some samples of what may come in case the little curious one is left unsupervised. You can save the situation by driving the focus somewhere else. Not cheap, but cheaper, however.
The Internet speed issue becomes a legal matter. Finland is the first one to break the ice, setting a minimum of 1 mega/second for every Finnish citizen.
As their Minister of Communication – Suvi Linden – states, the Internet services are no longer only a matter of entertainment.
We’re curious how these changes will affect the provider-consumer relations and whether this is only the beginning and the Internet services will become a subject of more legal frames.
Daydreaming has been underestimated for so long, that it deserves a little article here today.
Mind wandering, more precisely, a subcategory of daydreaming according to J. Schooler and J. Smallwood, can become a fantastic opportunity for big ideas or important revelations if you seize the moment right.
You can find more about this here and enjoy some very productive mind wandering of Sandrine Estrade Boulet here:
I recently stumbled upon a very personal project on Ze Frank. I invite you all to do this little exercise. It’s useful for the memory, the heart and also for the ones around you.
It goes like this:
Think of a path it was known to you as a child. Your way to school, to your grandparents’ house, to the bakery.
Look it up on Google Street View or just picture it in your mind.
Write down any kind of memory or feeling it brings you. Then, take a photo of it and there you go with your new piece of old personal history which may at some point inspire someone.
And that is more or less like a very cool contribution to the world.
I can only guess that Eric Fischer thought of this when he designed the following maps. The red dots show the most popular photo spots among tourists. The blue ones are the popular photo spots for locals. The yellow ones are undetermined.
The author used the GPS information of images on Flickr, combined with the home city of the user taking a certain photo.
Now sit back and make your holiday itinerary, the summer vacation is so close.
London
Moscow
New York
For the full gallery at high resolution and city hints (79 cities), go here.
Alec Brownstein, copywriter in search of a job found a brilliant, simple and cheap idea to enter the job market.
With only $6 his resume was delivered to 5 of the biggest Creative Directors in New York and landed straight on the top of the big piles of CVs on their desks. He didn’t have to print a single page or mail any motivation letter. Now he works for the Y&R NY and he would like to share his story with us:
David Griner with his article on The Social Path and Google with its recently new keyboard toy started some thinking and debates around the office related to the future usage of classical keyboards versus touchscreens. Do you think that the next generation will ever use a keyboard again?
We’re already resignated to the thought that our children and grandchildren will never use the Chinese Fountain Pens we had and will never get stained with blue ink while practicing neat writing. The future sounds like this: you touch the screen with your finger and the word is there.
The present already offers us plenty of this innovative writing: smart phones and smart displays, controllers for video games and all sorts of smart tricks used by platforms like Google, which are able to predict the words you want to type, so that you can quit writing the full sentence and resume to pressing “enter”. There is also Swype, the finger-tracing text programm and the list is open to daily releases.
That should make it easier for us to accept that this is the future; maybe also the present, as 2 year olds are able to use an iPhone before being able to read or to write.
We’ve got our own classical pro&con list, which we leave open for your opinions.
For the pro we can track down the following: touchscreens are smaller and slimmer, so you save up space. They can easily be improved, with a software update. They offer the option to switch the language automatically and they can perform translations on the content. And then there are the smarter touchscreens, like the iPhone, which can predict the letters you want to type and make it easier and faster to select those ones.
For the con we would start with the lack of a touch feedback: when pressing a button, you have the physical evidence of your action and you wait for an answer, whereas when dealing with a touchscreen, you can have a delay in answer and may find yourself in the situation of not knowing what to do – wait or type the same leter 10 times until you get a confusing display? Another con point would be that you cannot use a touchscreen without looking. You may be able to type on a physical keyboard just by feeling the letters and watch the screen or something else at the same time; but touchscreens require your full attention.
Some experts give an insight on the world of touchscreens here.
And while they do this, we can think of what to do with all the free space we save by using touchscreens: maybe store some books and oldfashioned diaries? Nostalgia has to be fed somehow.
We got tagged by BTO on Friday evening and that made our brains go back in the memory storage room, looking for the most horrible special songs which made us dance and tap our fingers on the tables of every outing in our adolescence or youth.
There would have been many to be posted, but we made a short selection here. Kind of like a mixtape.
Since we got the ball, we pass it on to you under the tag of TV series of my youth. We start with the Dallas Intro:
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