This is a "Body-Laptop Interface." It was, honest as the day is long, invented to give the user privacy, concentration, and warmth (I would add "delusion thereof") when working on a laptop in public place. You may insert any and all jokes here. But this essay isn't about the integration of microchips, human flesh and [...]
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Time after Time
I first became borderline obsessed with watches when I was 13. It was my birthday and I received an amazing Seiko that I thought was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. It was big and heavy and I was afraid I'd lose it and never get to have another watch again. And as happens so [...]
Sandsharks
I'm absolutely an avowed sports nut. Have been my whole life. As a kid, I'd memorize stats and create fictitious scoreboards with National Hockey League expansion teams that I'd one day own. I was actually the owner of the NHL team in Québec City over a decade before we had one. Except that I stole [...]
Swagger
In case you were in a cave this week, Old Spice did their best to bring down the Internet (or "Interwebs," as I sometimes like to call this wonderful thing) with a 48-hour ad campaign. It's classic Wieden + Kennedy, the stuff we all say "Dude, I so could have thought of that," but, of [...]
Dream. Speak.
Tonight I am in Chicago for the Dream Speeches of the remarkably talented men and women who are about to graduate from i.c.stars* (www.icstars.org) i.c.stars* is an amazing charity with whom I've had the great good fortune to work for the past five years, since I was a student at Kellogg. Their mission is to [...]
Frigidaire Kleenex
How important is your brand to your brand? When I was a kid, I lived in a world of brands. Everything around us was defined through brand affiliation. This was the early 1970s and it was the US of A. The grocery stores were doubling in size, well on their was to becoming today's hypermarkets. [...]
“I just want to say one word to you….”
Plastics. The famous line from The Graduate in which Mr. McGuire counsels our young graduate, Benjamin Braddock, to wrap himself (pun very much intended) in plastic. Prescient counsel for a young man graduating in the 1960s, as the boom in plastics was about to hit. I wonder how many Mr. McGuires counseled how many young [...]
North
Be forewarned: this entire piece is a love letter to Sweden. If you're not feeling very pro-Swedish (no idea why anyone would be anything but immensely pro-Swedish) you should go grab a coffee now and visit hampsterdance.com But if you're still here, I'll at least assume that you have a passing interest into why I [...]
to iPad or not to iPad
This is a long-overdue review of the iPad, in part because of what can only be described as a massive reluctance on my part to actually touch an iPad. I'm not a big fan of hype. I neither purvey nor consume hype, certainly not in the massive quantities that have surrounded the rounds of iPad [...]
Angel or Angle?
The breaking point for me was the last venture capitalist reality show I watched. I could bear only a half-hour and I honestly don't remember the name of the show. What I do remember is an entrepreneur who had devoted two years of his life's work and sold 50% of a potentially million-dollar idea for [...]
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