Author Archives
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DSLR Your iPhone
Turn your iPhone into a professional compact camera with DSLR-like controls. Whether you’re shooting street, portrait, or travel: Never miss the perfect shot again… More here. It’s a decent design and I like the fact that an app is included,… Read More ›
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Glyph: unlocking the underlying logic of the world’s writing systems
Studies of the shapes and visual properties of letters are currently lacking. The research team, led by Yoolim Kim and Olivier Morin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, hope to use the new glyph game… Read More ›
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45 Presidents and their Watches
On this President’s Day, we thought we would pull together as comprehensive a list as we can of US presidential watches. We’re talking all the way from Washington to Trump, from Timexes to a Patek Philippe. Some loved watches and… Read More ›
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What are NFTs? They are nothing
The above makes perfect sense to me. I am struggling to see NFTs as anything more than a fad. Will this open a whole new market for decentralized collectibles? Will this cement the status-quo? Or could we see a stalemate… Read More ›
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The Two Sides of IKEA
Such a good video which highlights just how well IKEA understands the current trend no matter what it is. On the other side, you may want to read Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest. Meanwhile, with Bosutar… Read More ›
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Quitting Wordle
I have made judgments about people who post their results. I have made judgments about myself, primarily how brilliant I am. During a bout of insomnia, I’ve shared my grid at 3am with someone who has sent me their middle-of-the-night… Read More ›
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The Seiko 5 Sports x Brian May (again)
For more than forty years, Brian May relied on his Seiko 7548 (quartz) diver that he bought on a trip to Japan in 1975. When it came to designing his first watch with Seiko, the natural choice was a Seiko… Read More ›
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Gentler Streak: lose the Apple Watch rings!
Gentler Streak is a personal fitness habit tracker offering a fresh, more compassionate approach. Making rest days part of a streak challenges the unrealistic mainstream mindset of always pushing harder — and it changes streaks as we know them… More… Read More ›
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Never Listen To The Critics
There must be thousands of clips like this that are discoverable. This one is one of the more embarrassing I have seen to date.
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This was the ‘Car Of The Future’ 74 years ago
The Davis Divian is one of many highly-unusual cars to appears in the years shortly after WWII. The war had been a time of rapid innovation led by countless thousands of engineers – many of whom found themselves back working… Read More ›
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