New watch, new discoveries
I went on a journey to get an analog field watch. I did get one I am happy with. But I learned a few interesting things along the way. Fine things are not for m...
Tag: design
Why do ‘How-to’ Biz YouTubers think everyone can do what they do and succeed?
I’ve been on a tear these last few months, building up my Etsy store of expressive shirts for makers (you can read more about it here, and are welcome to ...
Getting into a groove with my Etsy store of marker-inspired t-shirt designs
Back at the start of May, I kicked off the first line of products for my haberdashery. As I mentioned before, this idea was brewing in my head for some time unt...
I did a thing: Expressive t-shirts for makers and hackers
I’m the great-grandson of a haberdasher, as I keep telling my wife. And my mother is an obsessive maker – she used to have her own children’s ...
Now that genAI remembers so well, I’d like a bit of forgetfulness
When I started using genAI tools like ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey), the tools could not remember what was said earlier in the thread of a conversation. Of cou...
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...
Are all GenAI buttons magic fairy dust?
I now have apps everywhere asking me to click a button to use GenAI to do the things I can do myself. So I sorta ignore them. But last night I saw a Samsung ad ...
What do you think of Humane’s AI-powered wearable?
It’s a gadget designed for interacting with large language models, not apps, and for talking instead of typing. But it’s not yet entirely clear what you’re supp...
When the myth of the visionary founder flounders: push back!
Tesla has announced it’s phasing out its cars’ use of ultrasonic sensors (USS) to sense objects in the world around them. It’s part of the company’s shift towar...
Nike’s usability failure on the Apple Watch exposes what smartwatches could be
One of the chief reasons I bought an Apple Watch was for Nike Run Club (what used to be called Nike+).[1] But the Nike software’s bugginess and some misse...