Well, Me. My name is Shawn Day and I am a PhD student in the History Department at McMaster University in Hamilton.
Academically, my research interests revolve about nineteenth century Canadian economic, business and social history. Most specifically the role of drink and those who served them in late 19thC Ontario. More broadly I explore the adaptation of technology and information visualisation to the pedagogical process.
Professionally, I earned my stripes in the dotcom boom as jack-of-all trades in co-founded development ventures. Prior to that I was a self-employed journeyman involved in diverse aspects of information architecture.
I have some history in technology and a joy in life is catalyzing the reaction between technology and the study of history.
Down the line of totally cool furniture comes this rather unique objet d’something. Its called Obelisk and come from Jane et cie. Its simply cool - a set of four chairs and a table that, when stored forms a rather intriguing obeliskish feature for the well turned out living room.
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The latest in Danish modern design brings us the Milk desk. Simply beautiful and of course, beautifully simple…bad I know. Milk is designed by Søren Kjær and ‘inspired by’ and the perfect complement to Apple design. Its a clean, adjustable piece of art with clever flush mounted storage space and hidden cable management. The well designed flash-based website reflects the design of the desk. I think my ThinkPad would look equally attractive on it…ahhh to dream. I have a sense that this one is not cheap and getting it shipped from Denmark alone…
Its available from Holmris Hansen A/S.
This guy’s place puts me to shame. Even in my pre-move glory days, my collection was nowhere in the vicinity of this one. For those of you that don’t know I reduced my space when I made the move to Hamilton and at least half my collection of hardware went to the dump along with all the old issues of Macworld/MacUser/Publish! etc. as well as all the software boxes. I recall the first cull that I did of software that had collected in my basement. I had filled the basement entirely, with just a walkway down the middle and the boxes tended to collapse everynow and then. So one day, with my neighbours assistance I moved most of it out. We filled the garage to a depth of six feet or so and then started collapsing boxes and filling bigger boxes. Back in those days, garbage collection was also not limited to fixed amount and they thankfully took it all letting me use my driveway again…but I digress.
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Here’s a thought provoking piece of technology in action…
but what is particularly intriguing is that it is replicating the human action of turning pages “so as to avoid having to damage the binding.” It of course begs the question over how user-defined the nature of the printed media is, but certainly represents a wonderful adaptation of machine to the task at hand. Click the photo to go to the manufacturer’s site - there a really cool animated gif of the machine actually reading a book. A task it accomplishes at the rate of 2,400 pages per hour.
I have no idea how much these go for (I suspect a pretty penny), but what brilliant geometric implementation. Watch the videos and check them out. Double the seating capacity just by spinning the tabletop…DB Fletcher Furniture Design.
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