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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

Additional Resources

Sony Vaio FW560F/T (brown)

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. Several months ago, one of our favorite retail laptops was the Sony Vaio FW480J/T. Besides offering no-hassle Blu-ray playback and a large...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Sony Vaio, laptop computer, game, Intel Core 2 Duo, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-25

BenQ V2400 Eco

With the Samsung SyncMaster XL2370 ($300) costing $50 less than the BenQ, there is simply no good reason to purchase V2400 Eco. Overall, the Samsung monitor has better performance, facilitated by its wider viewing angle and brighter screen. The BenQ gets points for its unique, stark white aesthetic and the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, display, bezel, OSD, BenQ Corp., monitor, VGA, HDMI

Product reviews 2009-11-25

Garmin Nuvi 1690

Garmin made a pretty big splash last year when it debuted the Nuvi 880, its first-ever Internet-connected portable navigation device PND featuring MSN Direct data service. With MSN Direct scheduled to go offline in the very near future, Garmin had to create something to fill this void, so it partnered...

Tags: Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., data service, portable navigation device, suction-cup, cradle

Product reviews 2009-11-24

HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx offers more multitasking muscle than many of the other mainstream budget retail laptops we've recently reviewed. Helped by a 7,200rpm...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Overall IT, lid, Hewlett-Packard Co., AMD Turion II, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., keyboard, HP Pavilion

Product reviews 2009-11-24

GoPro Motorsports HD Hero

GoPro had a hit on its hands with the first-generation GoPro Hero. The small camera combined decent video quality and rugged reliability in a small package that was easy to use in action-based scenarios. However, the Hero wasn't without its flaws. Finicky battery choices that often cut recording sessions short...

Tags: Corporate communications, Engineering, battery, video, camera

Product reviews 2009-11-24

HP Pavilion dv6-1375dx

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. HP had better hope its Pavilion dv6-1375 is not sitting on retail store shelves directly next to the Sony Vaio VGN-NW270F/S. Both are...

Tags: Desktops, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2009-11-24

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

Google and the universe"Say what you will about Murdoch?s empire, ethics and politics, but you can?t argue about the fact they employ over 60,000 people in an era when shedding jobs is the ?Wall Street juice? of a jobless ?recovery?."This may be true, but it is a lousy argument. We...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Schiller: App Store isn't broken

The truth hurtsThe truth is consumer lacks the ability to make good decision regarding the security of their data. We are regularly tricked into click-installing things while surfing the web, download trojans and other malware, give out information over the phone that we shouldn't etc ... and we never...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, approval process, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Dell Inspiron i1470-3282CRD

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.At what cost to battery life? That's the question we're left asking Dell after testing its Inspiron 1470-3282, a $729 laptop sold at Best...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Inspiron, laptop computer, processor, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-21

HP Pavilion dv4-1555dx

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. With its stylish, Imprint-finish chassis, excellent audio output, and remote control, the 14-inch HP Pavilion dv4-1555dx is best suited for students and others...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Notebooks, HP Pavilion, laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2009-11-20

Samsung LN26B360

Photo gallery: Samsung LNB360 seriesTo a bargain HDTV shopper, the array of small-screened LCDs must seem inexhaustible and indistinguishable, but among recent models we've reviewed, the Samsung LNB360 stands out with the best picture quality. It's no reference-level display, mind you, but it managed to beat out the...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung LNB360

Product reviews 2009-11-20