Archive for November, 2006

Recommended design- and gadget links

Friday, November 17th, 2006

I agree with Philippe Starck that inspiration for design work is best found in music, books and science, not in design itself. But seeing other great design work may also trigger ideas, and it can certainly give motivation to realize your own ideas.
The following sites are worth checking out for the witty, beautiful and innovative [...]

Camera phones are not cameras

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Fooled by marketing – again
A lot of people believe that their camera phone is actually a camera. They assume that a mobile phone with 3.2 megapixels and a Carl Zeiss lens is a great camera.
Film based cameras compared to digital cameras
I think it is fair to compare an analogue and a digital Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) [...]

Sitting on ideas for too long

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

To publish or to protect
Like many others, I have a few ideas that I am constantly playing around with. And like many others I even think that some of these ideas may one day be materialized into releasable products. It appears that one should worry more about waiting too long before publishing an idea [...]