Just plain cool
neurontic | June 17, 2007I know, I know--you're tired of looking at my toast. I'm sorry. What can I say? I just started a new job at MarketWatch - yes, Dow Jones' MarketWatch - the electronic financial broadsheet many predict will soon be owned and operated by the man Americans love to hate almost as much as W. and his henchmen: Rupert Murdoch.
I can't say I'm proud that my checks may soon be signed by the man responsible for keeping Bill O'Reilly in bread and butter. But, in my defense, when I accepted the job, it really looked like the Bancroft's were going to tell the media tyrant to buzz off. Now - well - not so…
neurontic | January 19, 2007I was so struck by Adam Penenberg's recent article in Fast Company that I'm going to break my own rule and direct your attention to a totally non-brain related topic: The future of touch screens.
I'm no technofetishist, but even I was blown away by the revolutionary touch screen technology being developed by NYU's Jefferson Han. Han's demonstration at the 2006 TED conference left a crowd of tech-luminaries, including Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page, speechless:
Han began his presentation. His fingertips splayed, he placed them on the cobalt blue 36-inch-wide display before him and traced…