Archive for the 'Mobile' Category

The Fune: “It’s Really Hot!”

20Aug09

I know some of these are cheap shots, but I had more than a few chuckles with this parody.

I particularly liked the monstrously bad user interface and industrial design, and how it mimics old ‘rotary’ phones.

Information Design Gone Wild

30Mar09

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
— from Ariel’s Song, The Tempest by William Shakespeare

I loved the almost anal-retentive display of data through a heads-up display about the scenery and other details [...]

Required iPhone Posting

05Jul07

I would be remiss if I didn’t take some note of the blockbuster iPhone introduction this past week. Many people have already grown tired of this subject (and I love Darren Barefoot’s hilarious take on iphatigue.com), but now that this much-hyped device is out in the market (at least in the US), there might be [...]