Author: imran
Divine Direction
Elegant. Gizmodo’s covering a GPS navigator that’s as simple as a stalk that bends towards your destination…pair ’em up and you can keep track of a friend 🙂 Dandella is the winning concept from the Japan Design Foundation’s International Design Competition…woulda been cute to see the two winners finding each other with a pair of…
Awesome…
…twelve minutes at last night’s Superbowl XLI half-time show took me back to July 1990, seeing Prince play at Wembley Arena with my schoolbuddy Ashish – we were both sixteen and in awe of our musical hero…seventeen years later, da boy’s still gottit 🙂 Watch out for covers of All Along The Watchtower, We Will…
Isn’t that cute 🙂
My cousin Bilal was beavering away on my VAIO, in the corner of the lounge this evening, while we checked out some photos. He started out looking up dinosaurs for some school work, but ended up building a SimCity style model village using Bekonscot Model Village’s Virtual Village app. This is what he came up…
Turkish Delight & The Slow Singularity
When I first heard of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, it was described to me as artificial-artificial-intelligence; the notion of wiring human intelligence into software is geekutopian, but strangely there are few great examples of mTurk applications…is this due to mTurk’s potentially severe challenge to labour laws? Yesterday, I undertook my first HIT (Human Intelligence Task), earning…
That’s Me In The Corner
When I was around sixteen, I started to map out my extended family and try trace back my ancestry as far as I could from elderly relatives…after a few weeks research, I ended up with a huge A2 pencil drawn family tree. At that time, I counted around 80-90 people across five generations. Asian families…
The Man Who Fell To Google
As promised, at around noon on Saturday 26th August 2006, Google chartered a plane to overfly Foo Camp at O’Reilly’s Sebastopol campus and photograph the event for Maps and Earth. Here you can see a cute banner on the grass, the camp site, some people splayed out for the cameras and – most significantly –…
Love Being
TDR go from irony to optimistic semi-psychedelia with their Love Being video for Citizen Bird’s Joy…you can download it from Coke’s The m5 design project. The Coke collaboration is intra-ironic, given TDR’s earlier Work Buy Consume Die pastiche of the Pepsi logo. The m5 project also includes contributions from LOBO, MK12, Caviar and Tennant McKay/REX. TDR’s…
My 7-Year Itch
Uhuh, it’s true. After seven years in a relationship, it’s usually time to see other people 😉 Last Thursday , I became a civilian again, returning to a world where people pay for cellphones, where flights, trains and hotels cost money, laptops aren’t free and the English language rules 😉 I came to Freeserve in…