A big hello from CeBit Australia! I'm currently hanging out at the CeBit Blogger Zone, after the very helpful Danny (who looks after the area) help me set up a wireless connection. I'm not going to type too much at this stage, I'll
The Samsung NV10 digital camera is a sublimely designed camera that really considered all the past joys of manual cameras packaged all in a brilliantly retro styled hedonistic black housing. I picked up this beauty a few weeks before I moved to Australia, and so far
Unfortunately I am not so lucky. That lucky person that got his hands on one is Paul Stamatiou. Ah what I would have to give to own one or even the experience of playing around with one. I have written a lot
The Phoenix Electrostatic Speaker, designed and developed by my team and I, has been featured on Wired Magazine. Sniff
A design and branding case study on 2 of the more prominent Singaporean consumer brands Creative and OSIM. We track their success, as well as comment on what they can do to overcome their current struggles in this very fast pace and fickle consumer
The Chumby by Chumby Industries is a very innovative little product that is to me a great response by some thinking people on the culture that the Web 2.0 communities are creating. A while back I wrote about the Chumby as well as talked about why
Recently I have been yet involved again in a very common design discussion that can be found in both industry and academia, and that is how to you grade, view or access a good design? In other words how do we know if a
Called “Beautifully useless” by the New York Times, the Buddha Machine is an interesting yet simple product, which reminds us of a less complicated time by defying the current convention of sleek. It just snubs the Cult of Mac by giving the bird to everything
Designed by Joseph Graceffa, a designer from IDEO, this is a concept music Hi-Fi system has been doing the rounds on the internet. Apparently it has been posted on 14 blogs world wide. I supposed this blog will be number 15? After studying it,
Check out this really cool chair by Anna Gram that totally supports my new recent domesticated lifestyle. Aptly called the sweep chair, the simplicity in its design allows it's function to make a powerful statement. Being a work from home dad these days, I can
Yes, yet another touch-screen phone jointly developed together with LG. Before you go off on how Asian companies can copy the Apple Phone it so quickly
Take a look at a Apple's great looking phone + ipod +web browser. A product that does it all, but will it do it right? Looking exciting at first but then, where's the buttons. As I have written before, the lack of static buttons
I think this might be old news, but sunny Singapore has launched its next endeavour into fostering creativity and design in the masses. Singaporeans invited to give views on re-design CNA Online (17 Nov), My Paper (p 6), ZB (p 15) and ST (p H21). 17 November
Wow! Great spanking new images of a fully functional $100 Laptop. I want one! Source Since my last 2 posts, one which was a review on the $100 Laptop and the other on it's operating system, I heard the OLPC project had some problems getting
Quite a few significant events have happened to me in the last week, my yearly national service commitments, winning a Red-Dot, and managing to sell my home (another story on its own). Another significant event worth mentioning was the purchase of my new Nokia
Showcased at 100% Tokyo and designed by interaction designer Crispin Jones, this Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) is a beautiful example of designing with a Haptic experience in mind. Let me tell you why. Called "PCs for Poets" this product seems targeted to specific users and
Sometime about 2-3 years ago, the saturated consumer electronics industry, hungry for new but matured technology, has been exploring what we designers call "static" buttons. These "static" buttons are essentially non-mechanical (ie non-moving) and use electronic circuitry as a means to detect triggering contact. Function
Some times fiddling and hopping in between jobs or projects, or at night the moment I close my eyes to sleep, I get a massive brain wave! This often gets me out of bed and sketching! So I asked myself: What happens to the
Simple, by using design prototypes. Which was what this product is. Make it, test it, then sell the hell out of it! One of the reasons, in the past few months why occasionally my postings have been intermittent is that my design team and I were
Hayashi Yoshihide. That's me. The wonderful people from Nissan have given me this cool Japanese name based on the Chinese Characters or my name. That's right people I shall now embrace that name and will answer to it if called! Thanks, Gina and Haruko. I do