Month: September 2014
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Apple Watch Pricing
Model Price Source Apple Watch Sport $349 Announced Apple Watch $449 Ewan Spence Apple Watch Edition $549 The Register Apple Watch Edition $749 Ewan Spence Apple Watch $749 Ben Taylor Apple Watch $999 John Gruber Apple Watch Edition $999 Brian Blair Apple Watch Edition $1,200 TechCrunch Apple Watch Edition $1,499 Ben Taylor Apple Watch Edition…
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Microsoft Buys Minecraft, 3 perspectives
How much money was the company bought for? Microsoft acquired Mojang for a smooth 2.5 BILLION dollars. – Mojang blog post I love you. All of you. Thank you for turning Minecraft into what it has become, but there are too many of you, and I can’t be responsible for something this big. In one…
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Blade Runner Markets of Shenzhen
I really should read Joi Ito’s blog more. He has a fascinating post about a recent trip to Shenzhen where he visited the back alley electronic component markets and observes an ecosystem teeming with activity, rapidly iterating on designs in a way that I’m sure makes Silicon Valley rate of evolution feel glacial. However, the…
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Solve by Entertaining
Love this! Use technology to turn ordinary, functional objects into something that’s fun and interactive. Urban environments offer so many opportunities to shine a spotlight on individuals which can make someone’s day. Also, the obligatory “making of” video below. It’s all part of an advertising campaign for the Smart car, a brand that promotes “urban…
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Connected Address Book
Joseph Smarr’s blog post, Turns out we still need Plaxo (or something like it) had me digging through my archives for some screenshots taken from an old prototype I worked on a few years back. The concept was simple and combined the double opt-in privacy features you get from Facebook with the simplicity of a…