This is the illuminated, street-legal motorcycle inspired by the computer animated cycle from the 2010 film Tron: Legacy. Designed for casual cruising and slow ride-bys at shows, it is made from a steel frame covered by a fiberglass cowling that replicates the sleek look of its computer-generated imagery counterpart.
Awesome.
How long does it take super-trader John Paulson to earn your annual income?
Beautiful design, and an amazing advertisement. It was, supposedly, made by Sons & Co.
From the AP, on Steve Jobs’ biography:
The book says that, while some Apple board members were happy that Hewlett-Packard gave up trying to compete with Apple’s iPad, Jobs did not think it was cause for celebration. “Hewlett and Packard built a great company, and they thought they had left it in good hands,” Jobs told Isaacson. “But now it’s being dismembered and destroyed.” “I hope I’ve left a stronger legacy so that will never happen at Apple,” he added.
This is a beautifully simple resource built by Mari Sheibley, the lead designer at Foursquare.
Edit: See also: Pttrns.
From the New York Times:
Groupon, the daily deal site, is considering an offering valued at close to $12 billion as it prepares for an investor road show next week, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
That’s about 60% lower than the $30 billion number Groupon’s bankers were throwing around earlier this summer.
In an interesting interview at This Is My Next, Android’s Head of User Experience Matias Duarte described how Android’s UI conventions (or lack thereof) are evolving with the new version, Ice Cream Sandwich:
“The problem with going too starkly systematic, forcing everything into this completely constrained, modernist palette […] you’re not leaving any room for the content to express itself.”
“The incredible diversity of applications and content providers… that’s the reason people have these machines. Not for the five bundled apps and the beauty of the OS — they have them for the hundreds or thousands of games, or books, or movies.”
“Instead, I offer the web. Here there’s beautiful examples of very customized, very different feeling websites.” Matias flips through slides in his deck, a variety of websites, some news-focused, others which are services or shopping sites. “These look...
Yahoo had a $293 million profit in the quarter ended Sept. 30, down 26% compared to last year. The company’s sales for the quarter, excluding traffic acquisition costs – revenue shared with partners – came in at $1.07 billion, a 5% decline from last year. Yahoo’s earnings per share were 23 cents.
In other words: bad.
The technology company reported earnings of $9.72 a share, up from from $7.64 per share a year ago. Revenue increased to $9.72 billion from $5.48 billion last year. Analysts had expected Google to post earnings of $8.74 per share and $7.22 billion in revenue.
Impressive.
The day after I switched from my iPhone 4 to the Samsung Galaxy S II, I woke up late for a meeting. I had set the alarm. I had plugged in the phone. I did everything right, and then I placed the phone screen-up on the corner of my bed, like I have always done, and went to sleep. The alarm did go off, but because the speaker is placed on the back of the phone, it was muted by the bedsheets.
As it turns out, any time the Galaxy S II is placed on a flat surface with its screen up, the audio is muddled. If it’s placed on a soft surface – such as a tablecloth or a bed, it is almost entirely muted. After a few days of trying to remember to place the phone screen-down on my bed before falling asleep, and forgetting at least twice, I lost faith in the Galaxy S II’s ability to wake me up. I switched back to an alarm clock, something I haven’t used since 2007.
I figured this must have been an...
After the failed launch of MobileMe a couple years ago, Steve Jobs sent a postmortem email to the team. Here’s that message:
Team, The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour. There are several things we could have done better: – MobileMe was simply not up to Apple’s standards – it clearly needed more time and testing. – Rather than launch MobileMe as a monolithic service, we could have launched over-the-air syncing with iPhone to begin with, followed by the web applications one by one – Mail first, followed 30 days later (if things went well with Mail) by Calendar, then 30 days later by Contacts. – It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence. We are taking many steps to learn from this experience so that we can grow MobileMe...