Posted in Gadgets, Computers, Design on September 25th, 2007 No Comments »
On Saturday 22 September 2007 Apple Inc. opened it’s eleventh store in the UK. The store is located in the Touchwood centre, Solihull.
Having never been to an opening before and living within 50 miles I decided to attend. I arrived at about 07:40 in the morning to find I was about eighth in the queue. […]
Posted in Communication on September 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have written about Lamy pens before.
Whilst shopping the other day I came across a limited edition version of the Lamy Safari Fountain Pen in White. Of course I had to get one (well it’s white isn’t it?). The writing action is a given for Lamy writing instruments. It uses a cartridge system to deliver […]
Posted in Gadgets on September 17th, 2007 No Comments »
After the refresh of the iPod line-up from Apple two weeks ago I thought about why each model could survive and sell without affecting the others. This led me to consider each iPods USP (Unique Selling Proposition). My take on this is shown in the chart below;
It seems to me that one iPod could be […]
Posted in Design on September 17th, 2007 No Comments »
image via http://monsterfreecity.com/digg/
In my previous post here I tried to inform the reader of similarities between Apple’s product designs and those of others (especially Bang and Olufsen).
When I saw the calculator feature of the iPhone and iPod Touch it immediately reminded me of my Braun ET66 calculator I bought in the 80s.
This is […]
Posted in Computers, General, Design on September 5th, 2007 No Comments »
You know how it is, you sell something on eBay and your buyer uses PayPal. Then you have a few £s ($s) accumulated and think ‘What shall I do with this money?’.
I think I first read about insanely great tees on the Gizmodo web site. When I visited the ‘tees web site I thought how […]