Weekending 10302011
Oh, okay. Last week I was in London. There was some fun, cool Nokia stuff going on — besides Nokia World, which I didn’t attend only because there were also other things going on, including this event...
View ArticleWeekending 11202011
Ack. Just a few short notes from the week previous. Well, we got some more clarification on the graph of possible-probable-desireable but I wasn’t able to spend as much time figuring out how to employ...
View ArticleA Few Things The Laboratory Did In 2011
LOS ANGELES Projects * It was a year of mostly audio creations ahead and around of Project Audio for Nokia. Some very exciting little bits of design, fiction and design, fact. These will continue into...
View ArticleCeci n'est pas une caméra
Yesterday while leaving the LA Photo exhibition in Santa Monica — a kind of catch-all retail event of photography through the commercial curatorial world of private galleries — I happened across a...
View ArticleSound Should Just Come Out Of It
I think going forward I should do a better job of talking around what we’re working on from a technical point of view, until such time as it’s okay to talk about what we’re doing from a principles,...
View ArticleThis Is What I Sent — The Ear Freshener PCB Design
Here’s the current PCB CAD for the Ear Freshener. It’s sorta got two sides, but on the top I basically have a carrier for another board that contains the audio codec device. The components around it...
View ArticleThe iPod Time Capsule – Notes on Listening + Time + Design of Things That...
Over the week’s end I was in the back studio tearing down and rebuilding the wall of photos for the Hello, Skater Girl “side” book project. I was tasked with this particular endeavor by the guy I hired...
View ArticleWeekending 26022012
Over here in Geneva, the Laboratory was involved in the Lift 12 conference with various activities. Fabien attended the event and Nicolas is part of the editorial team and, as such, he took care of one...
View ArticleNew Aesthetic // OOO // Future of Things
It’s very gratifying to see how the #newaesthetic discussions are popping and percolating across the networks. There’s something to it, I think. Specifically the observations that something here under...
View ArticleWeekending 03062012
Um. Well, here in Los Angeles it’s been lots of fun/frustrating days getting back into programming the computer. I’ve been getting a bit overwhelmed by the growing list of “ideas” that I thought would...
View ArticleSome Critical Thoughts to Inspire People Active in the Internet of Things
It has never been so easy to build things and throw them into people’s pockets, bags, phones, homes, cars. Almost inevitably — with this abundance of ‘solutions’ — it has never been so easy to get...
View ArticleSocial Media at Human Pace
Most connected humans suffer from poor ‘data hygiene’. For instance, we are plainly grotesquely overfed on social media with its ‘anytime’ ‘anywhere’ experience and there is no rational end in sight....
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