Elegant Technology

As a fan of minimalist design I have admired the spectacles from the Austrian company Silhouette. For me true minimal design is elegance.
Specifically I was drawn to the Titan Minimal Art which weigh less than 3 paperclips [without lenses]. By using a flexible form of titanium they managed to remove the need for hinges […]

When you look at Apple’s web site every day as I do its easy to forget how the design has changed over the months and years. I came across a great web site that allows anyone to browse an archive of a web site as far back as 1996.
You can access the site here.

I looked […]

When Steve Jobs announced and demonstrated the Google Maps feature of the iPhone I was amazed. I have used Google Maps before as well as Google Earth to plan routes and look at satellite pictures of landmarks in the UK and USA. The fact that this will soon be available on a mobile device is […]

How To Get A First was written by a first class degree student to provide free Study Tips for students studying for a degree course. However, as most of the information is generic it is a useful resource for any type of study.
Instead of focusing on academic tips, the Study Tips found on How To […]

How many people are seduced by the features of a product only to find they are unused after ‘playtime’. By playtime I mean the time when the initial burst of enthusiasm with the features of a product are used beyond the ‘core’ features.
Take a mobile phone. Today these come with features like calendars, cameras, games, […]

The general Google website of google.com is very elegant becuase of it’s clean uncluttered design. However, often the results returned from a search are overwhelming.
There is a little known fact that Google is available as a more focused search where the results are more related to your requirements.
This is especially useful when searcing for […]

via wikipedia.org
Elegance is the attribute of being unusually effective and simple. It is frequently used as a standard of tastefulness, particularly in the areas of visual design and decoration. Elegant things exhibit refined grace and dignified propriety.
Some westerners associate elegance with simplicity and consistency of design, focusing on the main or basic features of an […]

For those people wondering, the picture at the head of each page of this site was taken by me. It is of a MacBook keyboard and was taken with a 4 megapixel Canon IXUS i camera. I also had the flash turned on.
I personally really like the MacBook keyboard and think it is very elegant.
I […]