Category: gadget | 小工具 | 가제트 | ガジェット
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Chinese consumer + more news
Chinese consumer Catering to the self-expressive Chinese consumer – less focus on the corporate brand, more on the product level brand for the self-expressive Chinese consumer. More related content on consumer behaviour Beauty Beiersdorf Could Complement P&G – Euromonitor International – if it did happen let’s hope it would be better than what has happened…
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Google Glass
The inspiration for this post on Google Glass came from a conversation that I had with Ian Wood around this time last year and a twitter exchange that I had earlier this week with Excapite. We started off talking about what Tumblr meant to Yahoo! and what it meant in the broader scheme of things…
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Crafty startup + more things
Lisa, a former colleague from Yahoo! has joined a crafty startup. The Yahoo! alumni network has a bit of a reputation with crafty startups. Hack Day pioneer Chad Dickerson was instrumental in the growth of Etsy. My Mum now has a compelling web application: In a nutshell, Wool and the Gang is a knitwear brand…
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Autonomy + more news
Autonomy H.P. Takes Big Hit on ‘Accounting Improprieties’ at Autonomy – NYTimes.com – HP can’t seem to catch a break, if the allegations are true it could also adversely affect the UK’s reputation for start-ups – having more in common with SpinVox than ARM. Autonomy provides in-organisation search across file servers. Autonomy software is used…
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Jamie Hewlett + more news
Jamie Hewlett Jamie Hewlett was not someone that I would have associated with luxury menswear brand Dunhill. Dunhill have been creating interesting content for a number of years, that used to be accessed through an iPad application and their own site. This interview with Jamie Hewlett is brilliant. Hewlett’s talent as a comic creator developed…
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Clone
I wrote a bit about my experience speaking with a consumer electronics salesperson on a post I wrote for PR Week. It was this conversation where I heard the phrase clone used. When I heard clone, I thought of Dolly the sheep, or the lumberjack ‘castro clone’ subculture in the gay community that borrowed from 1960s…
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Sony MICROVAULT: Throwback gadget
The Sony MICROVAULT offered a great opportunity to move large amounts of data around. We are used to shipping everything over the internet now, but for the past three decades the sneakernet – where data is exchanged over devices that have been delivered by hand still is an efficient way to move large amounts of…
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Retina screens
Unlike most long-term Apple customers, I was disappointed by the new Apple MacBook Pro models with the retina screens. What are Retina screens? Retina screens aren’t a distinct display technology, they are Apple marketing catchall term for new screens that have a number of distinct properties. A pixel density that would be comparable to your…
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Revox B77 series
When I started off having an interest in DJing I went around to a a friend’s house whose older brother was into audio engineering. As well as having one of the first set of Technics 1200s I had ever seen he had a Revox B77 tape recorder. He used to record tracks on to the…