Entries from Orange Cone tagged with 'rant'
How to make a DEC5100 work with Win2K
This has nothing to do with ubicomp, but I just spent 3 hours figuring this out and thought I would share. I have an ancient Declaser 5100, a laser printer that was made in 1993 and has run continuously ever...
Ambiguating the terminology: Palpable Computing
Excuse me while a rant a bit: <rant> We have a new entry in the terminology haze that surrounds ubiquitous computing, Palpable Computing. Hooray! Another word for roughly the same thing, but with a twist that could only have looked...
When is a salad bowl an ecological statement?
In the IDSA Innovations magazine there's a story by Scott Henderson describing his salad bowl and forks. It's a gorgeous product and a wonderful design, but Henderson devotes a full paragraph describing why it's ecologically sensitive because it's expensive. I...
Drift Table and Critical Design
I find the Drift Table, which is cool, but reminds me of the fact that I don't think that RCA's Critical Design philosophy should be called design. It's confusing how something is made and what it's made of with its meaning.
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