The Anonymous Hugging Wall: One thing that is not clear to me is the role of the dog dish that the girl appears to be standing in.
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information…
Takes a little while to get going, but overall a great article about the virtues of seeking solitude from distractions in order to develop your own original thoughts.
“I think you’ve got a pretty good imagination, despicability-wise!”
“Look Around You - Computer Games”
Can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this BBC series before. Brilliant. Make sure to watch them all. (via daringfireball)
Do you think Chelsea Clinton asks herself if her mom would understand something complex? No. Because her mom is a badass.
If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity.
This is the most concise, easily understood article on the perils of end-of-like care in the United States I’ve ever read. It is a must-read, and frankly, a must-heed, in my opinion. (via kottke)
These sorts of tests are common for engineering hires, but it’s nice to see an example of a good design-oriented one.
Embarrassed I had never seen this until today. Lovely work all around. (via drawar)
This recently unearthed video of Steve Jobs at work during the early days of NeXT is a remarkable look inside how he ran meetings, how he created culture at his startups, and how others — like Joanna Hoffman around the 11 minute mark — called B.S. on his reality distortion field. It’s also remarkable in that it reveals Jobs to be a man who picks carrots in pressed work shirts.
Sometimes when you are deciding on technologies to use on a new site (e.g. jQuery vs. YUI or MS SQL vs. MySQL) it’s instructive to examine what everyone else is doing. BuiltWith has an incredible amount of trending data to help you out in that regard. Very, very cool.
Lots of good thinking here. No solutions, but a nice reminder that two-dimensional touch interfaces are transitional, not permanent.
Stephen Colbert loses it on-air. Rivals another one of my all-time favorite Colbert on air crack-ups.
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Maybe it’s so you can’t see her feet, which could possibly ruin the anonymity of it all. Or she’s just short and they needed to make her taller.
I think she was too short to get the sleeves.
So the hug-ee doesn’t stand on her toes?
I’m pretty sure it’s for anonymity. Her feet are _in_ the bowl, that wouldn’t help much with height.
Interesting that they chose a woman as the hugee. Would your impression of this concept change if the hugee was the gentleman on the lower right pic?
The ‘arm’ sockets are at a fixed height.
From my visual inspection it’s not a dog bowl, but rather a small stand.
Its so shorter people can reach the ‘Arm holes’.
Might be fun for parties along side the jumpy castle ;)
I would agree with the step stool idea. It looks like a large bowl upside down, to stand on.
This is like a condom for hugging. Do we really need protected hugging?
Definitely think it’s a shortness issue. Don’t totally like how you can see it from the receiver point of view; looses the ambiguity of the wall, in my opinion of course…
I do like the suggested concept of the work though!