A great infographic helping us decide if it time to check email, and a very insightful article by Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist, author, writing consultant and former foreign correspondent who both has, and is raising a son with ADHD – I am going to pay more attention to how often I check mine – I may have managed to check it a few times during the night as I was turning over (that’s bad, right?) Please read the article (it’s worth it)
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While I was over at Quirky I found this, Converge – 4 USB outlets that nestle your equipment and is designed for both bottom chargers and side charging equipment. Beautiful. I want one of these.
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I love leaving my desk perfectly arranged at the end of the day (okay, so that rarely happens but a girl can dream). The quirky (love the name) space bar desk organizer might just be what we all need to help us use our space beautifully. Love it.
Via Swiss-Miss
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My birthday is coming up (This is a lie, it’s not until September)… but if anyone wanted to buy me a really cool gift I’d like this rangefinder case for my iPhone. “The iPhone Rangefinder is a phoneography system that gives your iPhone all the style of a classic camera. It’ll equip your phone with a shutter button, viewfinder, aperture numbers, two loops for a camera strap, and a tripod mount!” – In short it makes your iPhone look (and act) like a classic camera, but you can still take calls. I know a few events where I would love to have this slung around my neck.. from photojojo (I will happily send you my delivery address)
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I just signed up for this – a simple cloud based collaboration tool from Skylar Challand – I’m going to be testing it over the next few days, but I’m quite excited about the possibilities. According to SwissMiss :
“At its core, Dropmark is a simple was to organize and collaborate with anyone in the cloud. They managed to make it simple enough that anyone could use it.
You can drag any types of files right from your desktop (or the web) into these collections—documents, website links, images, audio, video, text, anything.
Some surprisingly magical stuff happens when you start combining these together.
Let’s say you want to send a friend a few links to look at. Instead of sending an e-mail and pasting in a bunch of links, you can create a Dropmark collection and instantly have one short link that you can send instead. And the collection and be updated at any time.”
Dropmark is technically in beta until Mar. 1st, but they’ve created an invite code for swissmiss readers: Sign up here and use”swissmiss”. The invite code gets early access + 1 GB free storage if used before March 1st 2012.
Thanks SwissMiss for another great find – you rock!
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I just got my email that “clear” is ready to launch – this simple to-do list may change the way we think… or not. I’ve downloaded it already, I’m always willing to give clever a chance. Find out more here.
Clear for iPhone (Coming Soon!) from Realmac Software on Vimeo.
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I was sent this yesterday from a friend (thanks Blake) A Holga iphone Lens Filter Kit
“Holga have now decided to cast a little of the photography magic on the iPhone world with this awesome special effect lens kit. Simple to install this kit slips onto an iPhone 4 or 4S just like a case. But a case with a difference! Once fitted you now have access to 9 different and crazy special effects and filters without any software or app installed. Cunningly designed like an old school telephone just dial in your preferred special effect and behold the Holga craziness that follows! ”
I wonder how well it really works? Find out more here – I just looked around the site and now I want this (that’s why the internet is dangerous folks!)
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This weekend I read about the Lytro camera – it’s a whole new concept in photography that captures the light-field. This basically means that you can choose where to focus AFTER you have taken the photo. I would love to get my hands on one of these – so. many. ideas.
I know what you are thinking so here are some examples for you to play with…
(click on the image to change the focus – double click to zoom)
Photo by Jason Bradley
Photo by Eric Cheng
It works because the camera accounts for a variety of light sources (or something like that). Find out more at the Lytro site – it’s fascinating and I think I could have a lot of fun with this.
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Polaroids aren’t going anywhere anytime soon – I’m still in love with them and I may need this in my house, my studio (and everywhere else I go).
The polarboy is a light (by night) and a frame (by day), and they can also make your own image into the right format.
Find out more at Polaboy – via swissmiss
I wonder if I have any creative friends that can build me one?
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One of the things I got for Christmas was the Kindle Fire. (or the fiyah as we have started calling it) I feel like I’m cheating on my ipad but it’s perfect to crawl up in bed with.
I really got it so I could understand the interface better, I’ve been using the Kindle App on my iphone until now and wanted to know the differences. I intend to write at least a few Kindle books this year (and I may happen to love new gadgets)
It has surprised me. I didn’t know I could run (some) android apps on it, and I thought it would feel to small (nope). I’m still playing with it but so far I’m a fan.
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Launched yesterday, One Receipt seems to have most of the important criteria for a successful service. It makes your life simpler and looks good doing it. Ok there are a few more criteria, security, cost and it working well etc… It seems to have those covered, but time will tell (it has the cost thing down – it’s free).
What One Receipt does is keep all your online (and offline via photos) receipts in one place. OneReceipt will automatically look through your email account and create searchable entries for the purchases you’ve made from online retailers from iTunes to Amazon. Instead of seeing the total amounts you spent on your card statements, OneReceipt imports itemized lists. It will also remind you when return policies expire. The really cool thing, and equally most terrifying is that you will be able to see at a glance how much you spend on certain items each month. That may lead to dramatic spending cuts, or further denial tactics. I’m brave enough to try it if you are…
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Researchers from the Zoological Institute at the University of Kiel in Germany have used their knowledge of insects and geckos to create a silicone tape that sticks and resticks (100′s of times). It can be stuck and unstuck without leaving residue and is incredibly strong. Velcro for the new generation! An 7.87 in square was enough to hold this team member to the ceiling. Imagine the possibilities. Maybe it’s time to take a walk outside and see what you can be inspired by?
picture (university of Kiel) information via gizmag
thank you @crawfordcomeaux
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I’ve always loved the stuff from Twelve South (I own more than a couple of their beautifully designed products) but their new plug (the plugbug) had me thinking. Not because it’s a great idea, it is (as always) and it’s very useful. It allows you to charge your mac book and ipad/iphone at the same time. But what turns it into clever for me (and that’s what I’m fascinated with) is the reason why it’s red.
The obvious thing to do with any mac product is make it white (it’s a no brainer, right?) but the lucky (genius) people at twelve south showed a prototype to Guy Kawasaki* and he suggested the color. Why? Because the product should be visible. If you are using the charger in an airport or public space it’s great branding to have your product noticed. Otherwise the genius would just blend in. That flash of red will be responsible for many sales.
Does your branding get you noticed? In the right way? What is your flash of red?
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