November 5, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
Ford Motor Company unveiled a new development in automobile safety today by showing off their new seatbelt airbag system for backseat occupants. The seatbelt airbag inflates just as quickly as a normal airbag and is triggered when sensors in the car detect a crash.
Additionally, the new seatbelt airbag system, which will be included in the next-generation Ford Explorer SUV, is actually more comfortable and has smoother edges than traditional seatbelts.
November 4, 2009 @ 7:36 pm
This is a neat personal project by Barton Smith of We Are Thinking Out Loud of Sydney, Australia.
Barton took it upon himself to redesign the Facebook experience with a completely revamped interface and navigation system inspired by Skimmer. The new design he made looks much more fluid than the current Facebook site and mimics some of the side-scrolling functionality present in the current iPhone Facebook application.
One of my favorite parts of the redesign is the events/calendar page (see below) which I think would be a great addition to the current Facebook site. I wonder if anybody at Facebook is seeing Barton’s work.
Check out a demo video of the new Facebook facelift below.
April 2, 2009 @ 1:34 am
The more videos I see of the Palm Pre in action, the more I think it is going to be the cellphone OS to rule them all. Yum!
February 16, 2009 @ 10:29 pm
If this promo video from Palm isn’t exaggerating anything, it really does look like the Palm Pre is set to become the best smartphone on the market when it gets released. It does feel like the Pre is doing something rather revolutionary with smartphone functionality because it makes multi-tasking such a fluid and integral part of the device.
Personally, I’ve always imagined a smartphone device to be somewhat like a tiny portable computer in your pocket (without actually carrying a laptop). The iPhone and BlackBerry get close, but there are limitations to each of those OS’s and the Palm Pre has so far one-upped each of those devices in every single way. For the first time ever, I think the Palm Pre may finally be bringing us into the future of mobility. The only thing left to “fix” and get right is our shoddy US networks. Get our networks to actually have bearable data speeds and decent prices and the Palm Pre is going to be REALLY awesome.
