adamio

Perception has been a huge part to Apple's success. Steve could bend perception by force of will. Watching his old keynotes, the reality he creates around the products becomes a part of them. Real or not. An Ive video just doesn't replace that, and Cook can't even approach it.

helpful read https://jethead.wordpress.com/category/fear-of-flying/

A good warning for some "gamification" engagement strategies

maybe we're just the crickets

Japanese manufacturing calls this "5S"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology)

When I hear older but working systems I think Mainframe. These are many times patched endlessly, by increasingly less skilled people. The most skilled tend towards the new. Implementing new features slows, things break more, and good development practices are lost.

single atoms no, but splitting atoms.. maybe

It doesn't but the alarm shut off when the pilot pulled up causing confusion. He continued to increase angle of attack the entire time

There was also a stall warning that shutoff when the pilot pulled up because it no longer had reliable info, the pilot assumed pulling up was somehow stopping a stall

Anything that makes technology approachable to the masses is a step forward I think, even if it might sub optimize in favor of the consumers perspective (Curating a Facebook account vs blog for example)

uniquely crafted and hand made (in China, by the gross)

Haven't tried it but looks nice. My input would be to resist the urge to add features. A lot of what makes these simple mobile apps great is the simplicity. I used a checklist app all the time, then the developer added so many features it became too complicated to maintain a checklist, and the app became useless.

sounds like a modern version of the floating = witch test

"With more first-time parents than ever older than 35..."

I would gess this probably has a larger subconscious impact than societal drivers, I wonder if any studies on this have been done

natural language processing

I guess I'm wondering what this offers Starbucks customers that Starbucks does not or cannot, which will steal marketshare? The advantage to a franchisee is obvious, but not so much for Starbucks customers

How many Starbucks customers buy just coffee?

This is shown to be a hit in European cities, where just based on a guess espresso and coffee is more popular. The majority of Starbucks customers are probably buying mixed specialty drinks.

Watching a Sbux barista make just a few drink, they probably go through a gallon jug of milk in minutes at peak times. How much fresh chilled milk can this cart hold? Not saying there's no market, but taking on Sbux seems a bit mis-targeted.

Wow, closer than 452b to us and similar size, have we done any focused listening in its direction yet?

A circular layout might be easy to use with gesture, something like a rotary phone with radius jumps

She now has a prosthesis http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2015/02/03/new-hands-f...

It's not bionic, but those are in the tens of thousands $ range

They would probably run their own OSX Based EC2 competitor before doing this

You leave out the too common expectation in Japan of spending long hours, working on only looking busy. Which is probably not helped by an open office

Reminds me of this http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-fro...

Any hard examples of actual cures found (or existing medicines independently derived) ?

This is a tiny article with suspect conclusions. Link to the actual study, which doesn't really make the same narrow conclusion as the article. http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr710.pdf

It's a spectrum, Game consoles have always been similar to that too

I'm not familiar with plane tech, but wouldn't the pilot have a compass?

I'd like to know about people still using ancient computers that suck. Like a guy still struggling with an eMachines iMac clone running Windows ME,

or a company using a drowning mainframe with an army of legacy coders constantly plugging the leaking holes, or nightmare layers of integration

At least then you have an excuse to not work, being 25 perpetually for most people could simply mean an eternity of work