Author Archives: phillip

Back @$$wards

New Japanese (Nissan) concept car, the Pivo 2, makes reverse gear obsolete, and parallel parking perpendicular… and of course it looks like a cartoon character! What would they have to do to this car to make it viable in the U.S.?

Startup Weekend

This is an interesting concept I came across while reading about decentralized company organizations. The idea is that a group of tech-savvy friends can get a “Startup Weekend” in their town. Usually the group includes people from different disciplines (pr, marketing, tech/coding knowledge, design, etc.) who work together to create a business from “Concept to [...]

100 year predictions

This Paleo-Future blog looks at predictions from 1900 of what life was to be like in 2000 and beyond. Some of it is strikingly spot on and some of it is just hilarious. The author of the forecast, none other than John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., seems to have an obsession with the not-so-imminent “gigantic foods” [...]

Weather Channel / Home Depot Tool

For those of you interested but ignorant when it comes to Home Improvement…
A friend of mine, Will Spann, at the Weather Channel, has been working on this interactive Home Depot Project of the Week tool. It won’t blow your mind with wacky algorithmic serendipity, but its just a very nice organization of multi-media information. Very [...]