Author Archives: Teppo

Fluent.io — A New(ish) Take on Email

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Ex-Google people from Australia have created a new email product (for Gmail) called Fluent. “We’re trying to … imagine the future of email,” Adams said. “We think that email has sort of stagnated and got into these set patterns of

Knuffingen Airport — Yber-Cool Scale Model

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Ouch ouch ouch. This is so awesome, a actually functioning miniature scale model of the Knuffingen Airport. It may be the smallest airport, but it must also be the biggest scale model airport. The world’s smallest airport has a size

CNN #COP17 Ecosphere Project — Epic Twitter Visualization

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Ecosphere is: “A fascinating real-time view of the global climate change discussion around the COP17 Conference. The plants in the ECOSPHERE grow from your tweets tagged with #COP17. Once you have submitted a tweet about climate change the ECOSPHERE will

New Kings of the Photography Hill: Nikon D800

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Nikon keeps kicking Canon’s butt with their latest DSLR releases. The new 36.3-megapixel FX-format (full frame) CMOS camera again has a HDMI video feed out, and records directly to computer or hard disk. There’s also a funky D800E variant without

Dieter Rams: Less and More Interview

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This Rams interview features 10 principles of good design + endless list of memorable quotes from this Braun designer who has influenced Apple’s design and industrial design in general. The un-spectacular things are the important things. — Dieter Rams —

Obvious Engine — AR I Can Believe In

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I’ve always had a bit of a distaste with marker based Augmented Reality. We can’t put markers in everything in the world now can we! Luckily there seems to be a solution to this. Just witness the Obvious Engine, which

New mix by me: Haxor & Roxor Podcast #008

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Hey hey! Just released last night, the latest installment of the Haxor & Roxor Podcasts is here. It’s a 3 deck mix by me, featuring in-key tracks and lots of smooth looping and disco, uplifting, classic and tech house music.

Designing Devices (Free eBook)

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In honor of #IxD12 starting tomorrow and running until the end of the conference my Kindle ebook Designing Devices will be free to download! — Dan Saffer on Twitter In other words, get a free design / tech book delivered

Mobile Minimalism: Clear for iPhone

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Oi! I’m constantly scouting for the best and most fluid-to-use mobile TODO app. Clear for iPhone cranks high at the moment. Check out the interactions and genius use of gestures. A great example of minimal mobile design! Only sad thing