links for 2006-05-05
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Earbuds for subway-goers and urban dwellers with a push-to-hear switch: "Press it, and the music in the headphone mutes, while an external microphone picks up ambient sounds."
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"Your brain is conditioned to respond to a phone ring just as it is to a baby crying," Mr. Nokes said.
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"A population needs to have access to a universal interaction platform which (except for SMS and dialing) means being on the same technology; carriers/handsets need to standardize and open up to development by outsiders."
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Great paper, I love the Reminder Shelf: "a place where people could stow their mobile essentials by the door, as well as make digital reminders such as pictures of things to bring that were not on the shelf."
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"The ethnographer returns not just with brute observations but with insights...We have to see beneath the surface into the beliefs and assumptions, the patterns and the practices, that make this life practical and sensible."
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"No more waiting for the posting page to load, no more bulky bookmark organizers when all you want to do right now is post a link." Lightning fast and simple to use.
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"None of the following tunes are safe for work, unless you're doing a very specific type of work. Hopefully these torrid twelve put both a smile on your face and a drop of sweat on your upper lip...."
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"I don't have anything close to a 12-principle system for finding lost URLs, but I thought it'd be fun to examine my haphazard ways of re-finding web things..."
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