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Check out this amazing and inspirational feat of engineering called The HumanCar. A human powered car that is I am sure inspired by the famous Flintstone mobiles.
I recently stumbled on a post by David Pogue, a technology columnist for The New York Times, who wrote a scathing post on how manufacturers today are not "Designing What’s Right for Consumers". While I agree with some of his points, I can't help coming
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Here is wishing you a happy and prosperous Year of the Rat!
Motus Games, a subsidiary of Motus Corporation, has developed the Darwin Controller of which they tout is the future of Motion Based Entertainment, and the natural evolution of the Wii Controller. Using their R&D experience in developing motion sensing
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Wired Magazine has done a case study on the Industrial Design creation of the Free Agent portable hard drive between Seagate and Frog Design. While I had high hopes in getting a closer look
Breaking news! Just 5 mins ago from The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft announced that they have made a bid to buy Yahoo for USD$ 44.6 Billion, $0.4 Billion less than their 50 Billion bid in early 2007. Microsoft Corp. Friday offered to buy
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Muji Award 02 Judges' Prize: Chronotebook
By: Wong Kok Keong
Patent 6593942: Event programming guide
By: Dennis Bushmitch et al
Check out this very clever Napkin PC designed by Avery Hollerman that is perfect for collaborating designers. Using e-ink and RF technology it allows designers to draw in colour and skip the very tedious stage of transferring the sketch into a
What a nice way to end 2007 and roll into 2008 with a flying start!
My team and I have won a Good Design Award 2007 from the The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design for our Dragon Electrostatic Speaker
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There is an uncanny resemblance between the great work of Dieter Rams to the work of Jonathan Ive head of Industrial Design at Apple.
I'm always a sucker for cool graphical representations of data such as the Website Graph Generator. Thus one of my favourite reads is "Information Aesthetics", a website focusing on such data visualizations.
Therefore I recently had a pleasant surprise when
Early this year I wrote about the Top 5 consumer trends to watch for 2007 and how it relates to Industrial Design. Following tradition, here we go again for 2008, and this time it is a little earlier and hopefully will help all
This year's 2008 CES Keynote speech is Bill Gates' twelfth and his last as a Microsoft Employee (he is still the Chairman though). He says:
"This will be my last keynote. As of July, I will no longer be a full-time Microsoft employee.
Edit: Done! Design Sojourn's Wordpress backbone has been upgraded to the latest version 2.3.2. There were some plug-ins that needed updating, but overall it was quick and easy. Wordpress scores top marks in its ease of use. Well done people
The CEO! Bruce Nussbaum, the person that I see playing an important role in bridging the gap between design/innovation and business, offers up his "Top Ten Innovation Mistakes". While a good read in general, I find his first point is by far the most
I rarely like signing up with social networks as many like Hi-5 or perhaps MySpace, do not reflect well on the Design Sojourn brand. However, a few months ago, I could not help signing up on one after reading about
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Happy New Year EVERYONE!
In the spirit of the New Year I like to reflect back at some of Design Sojourn's more significant events, and then take some time to explore our road forward with this blog's New Year's
