We’ve discussed the affordance of paper in this space before—the unique abilities that the medium gives you: you can shuffle pages, mark up and highlight, fold down corners, etc. One of my favorite affordances is the ability to flip quickly between two pages at once, which is not so easy with digital texts. In light [...]
For years, we’ve been making cars that turn into boats when we should have been making boats that turn into cars. It’s the Sealegs amphibous vehicle.
Over at Slate, Jack Shafer wrote about reading the news online versus on paper. After publicly swearing off of the NYT’s print edition, Shafer admitted that he’s back on print, and loving it (or, at least, accepting it). It’s a nicely considered piece, as he talks about how print offers certain advantages, such as how [...]
When the economy started its downward spiral in mid-September, the Chronicle asked some Bay Area businesspeople and economists for their perspectives on what was happening. Most struck a note of caution, the wait-and-see stance typical of that moment, since nobody really had any idea of what was happening. A couple of sources seemed less worried. [...]
An unusual video showed up on the Ifgogo blog that’s created a ripple on the internet over the last few days. It’s a video of a Chinese farmer piloting a flying machine that he is supposed to have built on his own. The shanzhai huaxiangji, or little mountain village glider, if the translation’s any good [...]
Since the screen on my cell phone has been broken for months, that’s been my latest excuse for holding off on signing up for Twitter. No more. So now I’m on Twitter. And what do you know, my first so-called “tweet” is about the last post I put on my so-called blog. And now I’m [...]
is today. Mozilla is trying to set a Guinness record for most downloads, which the Wall Street Journal notes is a non-existent record. Walt Mossberg says it’s the best browser available, the new Firefox 3. And Jim Fallows points us to what I think is a really cool map showing the number of people in [...]
A couple of years ago, a friend told me about the Technology, Entertainment, and Design Conference, which both of us still can’t afford to go to. Would we even get through the application process? Luckily, Tom Abate (whom I once met and found to be a really nice guy) alerted readers of The Tech Chronicles [...]
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