Last week someone used a fake credit card with my number and my name to charge a few hundred dollars worth of products at a store near my house. I discovered the theft by chance when I was looking at my account online. I was lucky, actually. We’ve started buying holiday gifts and I’m not always…
The world doesn’t need more expensive pedometers. I have a growing list of wearables I wish existed, though: The Face Whisperer Perfect for people with face blindness, short attention spans, or stressed memory, this device would use discrete audio and video inputs to recognize people nearby. With a subtle gesture, I could trigger the device…
The title of this post is a quote from Arthur C. Clarke. I’m reminded of it frequently during a visit from my parents, who have an average age of 73. Despite the fact that I worked for Internet companies for more than a dozen years, they often view connected technology as some sort of sorcery.…
Today I’m focused on the impact of autonomous vehicles on professional drivers rather than consumers. This was spurred by the latest entrant in the autonomous vehicle field: Mercedes, who released a video and information on their prototype Future Truck 2025. My first reaction was skepticism, not at the technological issues but at the idea that a company would…
Back in a previous life when I worked at a large Internet company, I was the design project manager on a couple of ecommerce projects. We worked very carefully on the interface design and user experience, trying to organize the sites to appeal to shoppers whether they preferred to browse or search, to look for bargains and specials…