Thoughts about design and technology.

In 1934, Paul Otlet published the Treaties on Documentation: The Book on the Book where he not only predicts the concept of a computer and the Internet, but more interestingly (to me), he envisions the use of different forms of media.

“These instruments taken as substitute for the book, will in fact become the new book. […]

This post is a little overdue, so since I’m sure many of you have already visited sites like Engadget for CES coverage, I’ll keep this short. There are three areas that I thought there was a lot of focus which we’ll be hearing a lot more about this year.
HD Proliferation
Well, it looks like Blu-ray […]

In the last couple of years, I’ve gotten used to subscribing to blogs as my main source of news and information. Mix that with listening to most of my music through a portable player and it’s gotten me thinking about how I consume media.
My primary music player is a Zune, both as a portable device […]

While going through some of the presentations given at this year’s Mix Conference from Microsoft, I realized that while there was a good amount of effort put into showing how Microsoft is paying attention to the interactive user experience, the main focus seemed to be on advertising and what tools Microsoft provides for advertisers for […]

A while ago, I came across a blog post on a “World Wide Mind”, referring to 22nd Century, a program which aired on PBS in January. It’s a pilot episode for one of 3 potential upcoming series. I got a chance to watch the episode a few weeks ago and have been talking about it […]

Another year begins and to kick it off, I usually start out by attending the Consumer Electronics Show. Here’s a look at what the expect this year in tech.
Audio
Last year Dolby introduced its True HD sound and this year it was DTS’s turn to release their HD surround sound, DTS-HD. While Dolby offers one standard […]

Now that the Blu-ray has been released, here is a good article that gives us a current outlook on the format war:
They say the outcome of a war is not determined on the battlefield, but rather in the strategy rooms long before the first shot is fired. And so it is with the great “format […]

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, was held a couple of weeks ago. What was presented this year shows how serious the gaming industry has become.
The media coverage itself was pretty impressive. Gaming news websites had extensive content. The G4 cable channel turned into all E3 channel all week long with correspondents everywhere on the […]

The first HD DVD player, the Toshiba HD-A1, is now more widely available and we just got ours last week. We ended up getting a defective unit initially, so things didn’t look so good initially. We replaced it a couple days later though I was pleasantly surprised.
If you’ve seen any initial reviews, you would know […]

A Google Image Search has sent me into the future of NEC technologies. Upon closer examination, the Internet Archive shows this area of the NEC Design Japanese website was originally launched in 2003 to show “Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers.”
Some of the potential products described are pretty interesting. The mobile phone and the […]