Category: Not What You Think
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Now That’s A Touch Screen!
When you think “Touch Screen”, you’d imagine a screen you touch, but what if you could use it to touch something else? Normally you use augmented reality by utilising real world objects to manipulate virtual objects, but here it is in reverse!
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Steal
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour films, music, books, paintings, poems, photographs, conversations, dreams, trees, architecture, street signs, clouds, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable. Originality…
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Breaking The Rules
Rules of Grammar: A double negative is a no no
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It’s Time to Throw in the Tau
I generally keep this to myself, but I’m actually a bit of a maths geek at heart… Hey, where are you going? come back here… don’t worry I’m not about to bore you with loads of maths I promise. Today is Tau day, 28th June, although you have to use that weird back to front…
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iPhone Still Plagued by Dropped Calls
iPhone survives falling out of a skydivers pocket at 13,500 feet! (that’s 2.5miles!) CNN report
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Don’t Become Indifferent
“You don’t have to do something wrong to lose a customer, sometimes it’s because you didn’t do enough” Brendan Mitchell
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A Walk on the Wild Side
Seth Godin posted an interesting graphic yesterday that caught my eye, a perfect example of data mining (sorry couldn’t resist that one) Original Source and Seth’s Post It’s not that surprising when you think about it, but let’s look at another example, Death Rate by Mode of Transport in the UK… (NB: Flying doesn’t appear, as…
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Bailout Karma
It is a slow day in a little Irish town, the rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling…
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It’s an Illusion – Meet Your Strawman
I can’t remember how I stumbled across a presentation entitled It’s an Illusion by John Harris a couple of months ago, but I’m very glad I did, as it was a real eye opener. It’s 50mins long in total, but it’s time well invested I assure you. It’s an Illusion on BBC5.tv or YouTube “John Harris gives…