How the Kindle is ugly and feels wrong, let aside the subjectivity of beauty or taste.

Or how to call/sms your favorites with 2 click-and-drags on an iPhone.

The last update of the iPhone software gave the double click on the home button the same functionality of bringing up the favorites, but there is maybe a way to avoid these two clicks.

This is the sixth post about a cell phone design project that started here.

Considering the amount of time I could allow in modeling, I had to make a choice between the solutions that were presented before. The Mies track and the leather track were, to me at least, the most interesting solutions.

This is the fifth post about a cell phone design project that started here.

Materials and finishes.

As much as the shape of an object, materials and finishes determines its personality. Stiffness, reliability, simplicity should then be the attributes of the material used in this case. Economics are usually also driving the choice of a particular material over another, but as this is some sort of a dream project, we'll stay pretty vague and just say that that a thermoplastic is the most appropriate material for this kind of object.

France Telecom's Norman Lewis on the current / future state of Telcos and voice communications over the internet at O'Reilly Media Emerging Telephony Conference 2006.

The best speach I've heard on the subject to date. Good to hear how bad the move to 3G is a mess from an inside guy.

Link.

Can't wait to have a CAD program working with this multipoints touch screen interface. Sound waves coming along, check your volume.