Starlink’s mobile ambitions shake the industry. “The spectrum will allow SpaceX to provide phone, text, and broadband services from space to mobile users throughout the United States and around the world, especially in areas where terrestrial systems do not reach.” […]
“You could call it Oura paranoia, though the phenomenon is hardly exclusive to any one product: As wearable health technology, including Apple Watches and Fitbits, have become more popular in recent years, some users have struggled with the unintended psychological […]
“In this paper, we present the design and prototyping of a lamp-like robot that explores the interplay between functional and expressive objectives in movement design.” There’s a 5 minute video. ~ learn more
“The Honeycrisp apple was revelatory for me: It was an apple that I truly enjoyed eating on its own. And I did, for several years, until I noticed that the Honeycrisp apples I bought were, with increasing frequency, a miss. […]
“The new material provides an energy density—the amount that can be squeezed into a given space—of 1,000 watt-hours per liter, which is about 100 times greater than TDK’s current battery in mass production.” ~ learn more
“Around 2005, Jobs faced a crucial decision. Should he give the task of developing the device’s software to the team that built the iPod, which wanted to build a Linux-based system? Or should he entrust the project to the engineers […]
Did you see that Apple ad? The one where they crushed all the creative tools of the last several centuries into one super-thin iPad. Creatives didn’t love it. This Stratechery piece uses the ad as a jumping off point for […]
“So the Vision is a device pulled forward from years into the future, at a price that reflects that. It’s as though Apple had decided to sell the 2007 iPhone in 2002 – what would the price have been?” ~ earn more
This is an interesting take published in Harvard Business Review. Summary: “To understand the value of Apple’s new goggles, it’s helpful to think about how virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) correspond to two fundamental tasks in decision making. […]
I was reminded by a friend this week that Google does indeed have to pay for traffic. Not only do they pay out to properties who run their ads via AdSense, but they also write huge multi-billion dollar checks every […]