Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
Yes, yes, yes! Someone has finally crafted the words for what I’ve been thinking all along - towards the middle of the document - that the structure of the content can be yet another tool for the writer. This is why I can’t stand to read things via RSS.
Meat stylus for the iPhone
Massive - just massive - automobile brake
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So if you think about it, the brakes on cars are fairly ridiculous. Think about it. You’re hurtling down the highway at 80 mph, a good two tons of Detroit’s Finest at your fingertips, and some natty little hypermiler pops out in front of you doing 20 with his two kids in the back seat looking back at you as you slide in a howling cloud of smoke towards their precious lives and even more precious nearing-expiration Carpool Lane sticker on the back bumper. But I digress.
Each tire puts, what, 16 square inches of rubber on the ground? That’s all of 64 square inches total? What if - instead - we put a massive 48”x42” rubber foot on the bottom of the car, safely tucked up and out of the way for 99.9% of your driving? And what if, when you’re quickly closing in on said Prius with a trunk full of Trader Joe’s, your car would sense your panicked stab at the brakes, and drop - nay, shove - the massive foot onto the ground? Heck, it could even do some fancy ABS action to keep it from just erasing itself in the span of 30 feet.
And then, instead of 64 square inches on terra firma, you’d have 2,080 square inches of massive stopping power.
Man, this is so cool. Disabled former tagger using eye tracking software, custom software, and a massive projector to ‘tag’ buildings in LA (?) with light.
Reminds me of the dude who I knew when I was in high school that had a stroke and lost most motor ability, and couldn’t talk. I made him a custom Commodore 64-based app and a hand-made controller that he could use to pick out words on a screen, and then the C64 would vocalize them for him.
Oh, and despite the passing resemblance, that’s not me.
Ogori Cafe: Service With a Surprise - PSFK
“As we walked away from the cafe, with just the right amount of delay, we heard an extremely excited “arigato goazimasu!! thank you so much!!” yelled in our direction, from an ecstatic mom and her equally excited young son. They truly appreciated the surprise.”
