Computers & Mobile

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Happy birthday cell phone call

Happy birthday cell phone call

25 years of cell phone service… Pictured above, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cost $3,995, was 13 inches long, and weighed 1.75 pounds… Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first commercial wireless call. It happened Oct. 13, 1983, at Soldier Field, where Ameritech Mobile, now part of Verizon Wireless, made the call from a Motorola […]

Creative advice on iPhone

Creative advice on iPhone

Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies was created as a set of cards containing a variety of non-specific phrases and ideas intended for use by the creative mind in need of direction. They can be quite helpful in those ‘stuck’ moments of manufacture, and now there’s a free open source iPhone application available to […]

ILoveSketch – Amazing 3D program

Seok-Hyung Bae, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Karan Singh, “ILoveSketch: As-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3D curve models,” (To appear) ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2008 (Monterey, CA, USA, October 19-22, 2008) [pdf] via NOTCOT. A 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing […]