The first thing you see when you pop over to MOG.com is a hyperbolic statement: “MOG is where your music listening dreams come true. All of them. Weird.” However, when I started playing with MOG a few weeks ago they were saying, “Better than Pandora, Last.fm and iTunes. Combined,” right up front. I don’t know [...]
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MOG Makes All Of Your Dreams Come True
January 5th, 2010 4 Comments
Tags: Music · Technology
Of Sneakerheads, Subcultures and Neon Orange Unicorns – The Retrospective’s Night With Nike iD
May 5th, 2009 6 Comments
Until recently I had never heard the term sneakerhead, nor to my knowledge had I met one. Over three hours with Harley Carrara, owner of Mass Appeal Skateboard Shop in Plainville, Connecticut, and three Nike Design Customization Experts at Westfarms Mall’s Nike iD Studio, I learned that though I hadn’t realized it, the mythic sneakerhead [...]
Tags: Art · Design · Fashion · San Francisco · Technology · The Retrospective · street wear
Interactive Projection You Can Wear
April 7th, 2009 No Comments
Imagine a device that can comprehend what you are holding, identify specific hand gestures, and even decode the physical make-up of any given object. At this February’s TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) convention, Pattie Maes and brainy MIT student Pranav Mistry debuted a working prototype that can do all of the above. Technology is now [...]
Tags: Technology
Mother New York Wants The World To Crash On Their “Mother Couch 2.0″
April 2nd, 2009 No Comments
This past Wednesday, the Mother New York ad agency threw a major rager in honor of a couch. Okay, it wasn’t so much a rager, but it was a launch party for their latest creation, Mother Couch 2.0. What is Mother Couch 2.0, you ask? In the words of the ad agency behind the couch: [...]
Tags: Advertising · New York · Technology
Boxee – The World’s Gone Digital
March 24th, 2009 1 Comment
Chances are your digital life is strewn across more places than Dick Cheney has houses. mp3s on your computer, iPod, and phone, pictures on your phone, camera, and on Facebook, MySpace or Flickr – you’ve got more dignity than Photobucket, please tell me you do. and you’ve got DVDs, TiVo’d shows, and movies you’ve downloaded [...]
Tags: Technology · gadget
Internet Births Yet Another Beautiful Baby: imgfave.com
March 18th, 2009 No Comments
I love the internet–love, love, love it–for a number of reasons; one of those reasons is websites like imgfave.com. Last weekend imgfave founder and creator Gabe Ragland was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about his innovative image bookmarking community. We’re delivering it to you in an exclusive Retrospective interview.
Tags: Design · Technology · web2.0















