November 12, 2010
Design Tools, General Design, Graphic Design
How many of us know someone who bought an iPad as an over-sized smart phone? After several months, other than checking email, they have yet to explore the boundaries of what the iPad offers.
Davis Kassan has taken his talent to a new media, the iPad, and documented how he has used it with great technique and execution for portraitures. What’s unique about this video is that it was live-streamed from his studio over the course of 3 hours. Check it out.
June 21, 2010
Product Design, Product Innovation, Upcoming Inventions
I was amazed to see this early invention of the GPS (1932). It used a rolling key map to gauge where you were as you drove. Not so much global positioning, but it was a clever way to track your location around the neighborhood.
As for newspapers, reading in real time hasn’t always been as easy as picking up an iPad. Check out these kids in 1938 reading the children’s page of a Missouri newspaper as it is fed out of an early fax machine.
Even life vests have evolved into a state-of-the-art device, as compared to bicycle inner tubes wrapped around the upper bodies of these young Germans in 1925.
January 27, 2010
Product Design, Product Innovation
Fresh pictures from the Apple event live. Thanks to Gizmodo for live blogging, nice reporting!
