Hasta La Ideas

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pa href=”http://neighborgoods.net/”Neighborgoods.net/a, a compelling service that lets you borrow and lend stuff to your network, and has just launched nationally (it was only available in southern California before). Got a circular saw, or straight jacket (no joke), or a coffee grinder? People in a href=”http://neighborgoods.net/?zip=10012″10012/a need those!/p

pemvia a href=”http://unconsumption.tumblr.com/”unconsumption/a via a href=”http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/30/neighborgoods-borrow.html”boingboing/a/em/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/business/neighborgoods_goes_national_16865.asp”(more…)/a
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pThe iPhone 4 has received it’s fair share of criticism (and lawsuits?) due to a design flaw where holding the phone a certain way causes dropped calls and lowered reception strength. Yesterday Steve Jobs supposedly said, a href=”http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/01/exclusive-conversation-with-steve-jobs-on-the-iphone-4-antenna-problems/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBoyGeniusReport+%28Boy+Genius+Report%29″”We’re working on it…”/a and today, the “Death Grip” problem is being acknowledged on Apple’s site as a “software calculation error.”/p

blockquoteOur formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place./blockquote

pApple goes on to say they used the same formula for past iPhones, but it’s only noticeable now because of the new antenna./p

pAlready have an iPhone 4 and want to reduce your Death Grip? You’re not alone. People around the web have been hard at work: some have a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/26/iphone-4-nail-polish-fix”painted clear nail polish/a around the phone, others have a href=”http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/24/can-black-electrical-tape-make-your-iphone-4-go-faster/”wrapped tape on the corners/a, a few have used a href=”http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/29/cute-cheap-iphone-4-mod-use-modeling-clay-on-the-corners/”Sugru/a, while the most audacious have a href=”http://www.crunchdot.com/does-adjusting-or-trimming-the-iphone-4s-micro-sim-fix-the-antenna-issue-probably-not/”taken a knife to the ports and modified their SIM cards/a. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures, but you could just buy a case./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/iphone_4_were_working_on_it__16868.asp”(more…)/a
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pOver at a href=”http://blog.cooperhewitt.org/Bills-Blog”Bill’s Blog/a, Bill Moggridge has a href=”http://blog.cooperhewitt.org/2010/07/02/learning-interaction-design-bill-moggridge”a quick reflection on his recent visit to the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design/a (you can download his presentation slides too!). Here’s the wrap-up:/p

blockquoteSome argue that interaction design, meaning the design of everything digital, can no longer be considered a separate discipline, because all of the design disciplines now reside in a digital world. I agree that everything that can be digital will be, but I still think there is a lot of value in learning how to design in virtual space, gaining fluency in thinking about the abstractions of the digital realm, such as user’s conceptual models or navigation journeys./blockquotea href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/education/bill_moggridge_on_learning_interaction_design_16863.asp”(more…)/a
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This series of wooden LED lamps by Zoe Coombes and David Boira of New York studio Cmmnwlth is called Truncheons. (more…)

This dress full of balloons by German artist Nicole Michniewski is one of ten outfits created by product designers, artists and architects for FASHIONCLASH Maastricht in the Netherlands last month. (more…)