Christopher Fahey on the cycles of adoption and adaptation that determine how we interact with technology and media. Maybe we'll all be okay after all.

"The recent launch of the MacBook Air has made me think a lot about my perfect computer, which the Air is not." Musings on the perfect machine.

"Connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze!" Sleep in, donate $20 to, say, the GOP. This is an evil machine.

Indeed. (Just saving for reference.)

It's all true. All right!

It's a bubble, yes, but it may not pop in the same way it did last time. There's a coastal divide in opinion, too, with NYers skeptical and Valley workers optimistic despite the reality. We'll see...

An interview with Apple's brilliant product designer, who possesses a "fanatical care beyond the obvious stuff."

Notes on the growing importance of design in business. Good short reads.

Cool demo using a plastic bag, water, blue dye, an iSight, some light, and some mysterious software.

Use a pulsating orb to "make electricity [usage] visible" and get people thinking about their energy use. Good idea!

Icons for emerging ubiquitous computing situations. Awesome! Like he says, "the Network dead zone, Warning: sensor field and this object has invisible qualities are particularly successful."

Iconography to represent RFID and more.

First-person pinball.

Neat. A lot about Craig's decision not to monetize, etc.

Augmented Social Network, explained.

"a compelling and dynamic introduction on Identity 2.0 and how the concept of digital identity is evolving."

Excellent videos!

A diagnostic engineer's collection of his electronics and music experiments, including the "Ambient Addition" music concréte headphones.

The best of the space telescope's shots.

"The reactable, is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface."

"The musical brain is learning."

He contends that users should pay for the bandwidth they consume, and that that would keep the internet neutral.

An article on sound quality for Stylus Magazine.

Amazing projects (technological art installations) from the University of the Arts in Berlin.

Holy shit. " While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations."

"The following responses were among those given to a survey conducted in Lagos last year by the Daily Times of Nigeria that asked people whether they believed rumors that answering cell-phone (GSM) calls from certain 'killer numbers' causes death."

"3eyes is interested in people and the way that they interact with stuff, things and each other…" ... "people should be able to conceive of the purpose of a system with minimum explanation then explore, learn and adapt it for themselves."

"The MIT Media Lab is launching a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children."

"Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment."