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More good design in medicine please

More good design in medicine pleaseI will pay for good designI totally agree, and here's a great t-shirt one can wear to support the idea: http://artefacture.com/goodesign_mens.html-ChrisKISSThis is actually a subcategory of 2: KISS -- Keep It Simple, Stupid!Remember that when it comes to medicine the average layperson often is scared...

Tags: Engineering, good design, Stupid! Remember

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

A solar-powered sailboat: Counter-intuitive or just good design?

A solar-powered sailboat: Counter-intuitive or just good design?consider sailor's state of mind One sails for the experience and the freedom from fossil fuels. A $40,000 sailboat is capable of sailing around the world and even some as shorter than 10 meters have done so. A multi-million dollar motor cruiser will...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Counter-intuitive, good design, solar energy, PlanetSolar

Discussion threads 2009-03-19

Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile

Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows MobileSo you are saying that you have not seenany of the issues that the author had written about?Interestingly, most Windows users have never seen the Windows/WinMobile issues that you have said you have seen.So what is the better choice?hmmmm.....What is...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Good Design, Apple iPhone, phone, Microsoft Windows, mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Building for web 2.0 part 2: Brand Design and Designers

[Note: This is part 2 of a series I started here] Im a sucker for great design. I live for it and I even write about it on my Med Hed blog. Whether in the tangible world, or the world of Web 2.0, great design UI or branding, isnt...

Tags: Web 2.0, Web, brand, branding, good design, design company, capacitor

Blog posts 2007-03-15

Sirius Stiletto 100

Photo gallery:Sirius Stiletto 100 CNET finally received the much-ballyhooed Stiletto 100, the portable Sirius satellite receiver that can nearly do it all. ...

Tags: Digital music, Good Design, Sirius Stiletto, Sirius, Stiletto 100, battery, radio

Product reviews 2006-11-04

Office 2007's improved user interface

Office 2007's improved user interfaceQuestionOkay John, ONE line of that whole piece confuses me. I liked the ski/snowboard analogy, understand that once you're used to it, the new GUI is "a good thing", and all that ... but where on EARTH did the "complex command line" comment come from??I...

Tags: Word processors, Good Design, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office 2007

Discussion threads 2006-10-04

Can good design compensate for XML bloat?

Can good design compensate for XML bloat?Good design eliminates XML - completelyA good design would have no place for archaic, hierarchical, application specific data representations like XML.There are much more logical and flexible methods of data representation available.Good design helps to eliminate XML bloatXML is merely a framework for building...

Tags: Good Design, RDBMS, Data Duplication, XML, good design

Discussion threads 2006-08-23

Dell bids adieu to hard-drive music players

Dell bids adieu to hard-drive music playersIt was a so-so effortI have the 1st gen DJ, and it couldn't compare on features no games or contacts, but all I wanted was raw harddrive space, a decent playback system and sound, and a better price point. I wasn't disappointed in...

Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, Good Design, hard drive, notebook, Dell Computer Corp., music player, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

Will Mac Mini spur petite-PC revolution?

Will Mac Mini spur petite-PC revolution?The Revolution is comingThe Mac mini will spur a revolution away from the cookie cutter PC's and all the problems inherent with Windows.It's all about the software, starting at the system level. People have let price alone steer them to bad decisions regarding their...

Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., Apple Intel Mac Mini, PC, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Good Design, computer

Discussion threads 2005-01-27

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Samsung Messager II SCH-R560 (MetroPCS)

why you should buy the samsung messanger?why would you want to buy the samsung messanger 2?Spread your social wings and fly with the new Samsung Messager? II. It?s sleeker, faster and cooler than the original and comes fully loaded with a full QWERTY slider keyboard, 2.0 megapixel camera and video...

Tags: Samsung Messager, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Messager II

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Droid Preview: iPhone's first real competition has arrived

The MicroSD card is not only expandableIt is hot-swappable. So basically your storage is only limited to how many cards you can afford.Competition is GREAT!I am glad Android is taking off, the future is Linux driven devices/appliances.To the naysayers that Linux distro devices/appliances are a 'niche' I guess Google is...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, Droid Preview, phone, card

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal

Opera"Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal". . . and by "browser rivals" you really mean Opera, who has been whimpering and whining the whole time. A browser that barely appears on anybody's charts, but still retains a cult following.I think Microsoft is improving with IE7...

Tags: Web browsers, ballot screen, Web browser, Opera Software ASA, ballot screen proposal, Microsoft Corp., official complaint

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate

If I'd paid the full whack $2,495 to attend the Enterprise 2.0 conference I'd be demanding at least a partial refund. It seems the 'Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock' debate was less than a damp squib and more like a feeble whimper. Here's the back story: ...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

IronKey reveals new, ultra-secure D200 USB flash drives

Another bad designIf I can lose the cap and damage the connector, it's not secure. Why would anybody make a flash drive with a separate cap any more? I'll continue to wait for a secure drive with a good physical design that operates reliably with NO software installation on host...

Tags: Flash memory, IronKey, D200 USB flash drive, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Motorola and Palm; will 2009 be designated as a comeback year?

wrongwell matthew, because you have been wrong consistently about the smartphone market the last few years i would argue they are both doomed, when you like them. the pre doesn't help palm as it should regardless of critical acclaim and motorola will participate in the race to the bottom (margin...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Mobile operating systems, RIM OS, Palm Inc., Pre, GSM, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

VAIO? BZ Notebook Spill Test

Distilled Water You could possibly do this with many laptops with distilled water, and it wouldn't affect it for a while! But its good to see laptops designed for this sort of thing!RE: VAIO? BZ Notebook Spill TestThat is hardly a test...Who drinks water? In a glass?Spill something that conducts...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, BZ Notebook, Sony Vaio

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over Alex, Nook

I kind of want to see barnes and noble win this one...The whole concept of a sliding image preview isn't exactly revolutionary, and it does look decidedly different from the bulky, 2003-esque block interface of the alex.On a personal note, I think the alex looks like some children's toy out...

Tags: Sales channel, E-books, NDA, Barnes & Noble Inc., B&N, credit card, patent, Nook, password

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717 - carbon black (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717The Sony Ericsson Equinox is the first phone from the manufacturer to land at T-Mobile since the TM506. In many ways the Equinox is a fitting successor; like the TM506 it has a thin flip phone design and it sports a similar feature set that includes...

Tags: display, Equinox, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, phone, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-11-03