E Ink has made a recent announcement regarding the availability of their flexible digital paper. While I don’t believe I discussed this here at banapana, digital paper has often been the subject of lengthy late night conversations with friends in the design community. It heralds nothing short of a new age for media.
As usual today it wasn’t so much one article in particular that caught my eye but rather the overlap that existed between several. MIT has gotten serious about building a $100 laptop for kids. But kids don’t want laptops, they want video game machines — especially portable ones. Read more…
I did not know this but somebody ranks the Superbowl commercials using focus groups. Since I don’t trust USA Today to leave their chart up for any length of time, I’ve re-posted the ranking here. After all the magic eight-ball questioning about whether Napster was really a better deal than iTunes, I’m glad to see that people noticed it was just a lousy ad that used hardly any imgination. Why do I get the distinct feeling that a nosy VP of marketing decided they were a creative director? “A sign at the Superbowl! It’s grass roots!” Yeah. Except that it’s a superbowl ad, dummy. Read more…
