gedankentank.com

Hi, I'm Matthias. I love music, nonsense and people that don't take life seriously. I enjoy tinkering with web stuff and craft interfaces with passion. This tank is full of random things I stumble across and enjoy. Stay hungry, stay foolish - never settle.

16.11.2011

“There is no such hand in touchscreen computer devices. The touchscreen has no texture variation, has no physical surface information, is dead flat, reflects ambient light noise, and features oily fingerprint debris when seen at a raking angle”

– Tufte on touch http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003qM&topic_id=1

11.11.2011

Tape 199: Gorillas im Nebel

08.11.2011

The future of touch

A nice collection of gems that give a glimpse into the future of touch interactions by Patric (via interactionblog.com)

31.10.2011

“The future world is reasonable chaos”

– Novalis

19.10.2011

Tape 198: Jammern wie die Großen

13.10.2011

Shit that Siri says

That is what you call an interface with a human touch. And this is why apple still rules. (via @pixeljoe)

05.10.2011

“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”

– Alfred North Whitehead

05.10.2011

“If you judge Apple’s products by the reaction of analysts and the press, you’re an idiot. Pure and simple. Apple doesn’t make products for analysts and the press. They make products for everyone.”

– MG Siegler (via david)

(via david)

05.10.2011

“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.”

– Alfred North Whitehead (via @DougCoupland)

02.10.2011

Tape 197: Der Langsamkeit entkommen

30.09.2011

The Physics of Road Runner

“These clips from Warner Brothers Road Runner and Coyote cartoons are intended for use by physics teachers.”

You gotta love coyote … (via @timoreilly)

28.09.2011

“The S.S. Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago. On 24 July 1915 the ship rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was to become the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. … In 1915, the new federal Seaman’s Act had been passed because of the RMS Titanic disaster. This required retrofitting of a complete set of lifeboats on the Eastland as on many other passenger vessels. This additional weight, ironically, probably made the Eastland more dangerous and it worsened the already severe problem of being top heavy.” (source: Wikipedia)

“The S.S. Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago. On 24 July 1915 the ship rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was to become the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. … In 1915, the new federal Seaman’s Act had been passed because of the RMS Titanic disaster. This required retrofitting of a complete set of lifeboats on the Eastland as on many other passenger vessels. This additional weight, ironically, probably made the Eastland more dangerous and it worsened the already severe problem of being top heavy.” (source: Wikipedia)

28.09.2011

FRICTIONS by Steven Briand mixes live action and stop motion animation (via designtagebuch)

26.09.2011

“Players don’t play to complete games, just as readers don’t read to finish books. Players play to feel emotions. Game design is experience crafting for the purpose of emotion engineering.”

– Stéphane Bura Emotion Engineering in Videogames

14.09.2011

Tape 196: Zärtliche Alltags-Terroristen

« Older thoughts · · Newer thoughts »