Sony has been getting its head handed to them the last year or so. From rootkits to management shake-ups, it seems every story with “Sony” in the title is bad news. They desperately need something good to happen, especially with PlayStation 3’s unimpressive sales figures. Fortunately, the latest news out of Sony isn’t bad. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound especially good either. From a C|Net article (Link) discussing Sony’s announcement to provide a 3D avatar-based “Home” world for PS3 owners: Continue reading
In’s and Out’s of Second Life
Just wanted to point to a neat little video over on blip.tv where Matt Biddulph gives a short presentation on getting real world data into Second Life. Always of interest to me. There’s also a related post discussing this effort on Joshua Kaufman’s blog called “Building Bacteria in Second Life” (Link) that also get’s into Spimes (something else of interest to me).
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Are Designers Connecting “Blonde”?
There’s a curious entry over on O’Reilly, “The Blonde Correction” (Link), that struck me as being relevant to the design community. From that post:
What I found interesting about this is how much it tells us about faint signals and how the mind sees patterns. What we call intuition is often something we recognize but don’t quite have a conscious story for. Rattigan seems to me to have picked up on the “blonde” connection mostly as a good headline for his show segment, but he had a real point to make. In fact, we all look for hooks on which to hang things that we know, but can’t prove.
Toys Too Cool for Kids
Kids today have it so good. Case in point: the above radio-controlled water toy. I was surfing through C|Net’s “Crave” blog the other day when I saw that thing; a radio-controlled water cannon. If I’d seen that as a kid I’d have dreamt of them. I know because I’m already dreaming about how to use them!
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Future Product Thinking
For what it’s worth, I’ve been trading comments on the Design Sojourn blog on… well… it started off as a discussion on developing devices that worked with Web 2.0 (recall my earlier post on that – reLink). The discussion has since expanded into something quite a bit larger: the convergence of bits and atoms. Here are some pieces from my comments that might be of interest: Continue reading