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How to honor your legendary late-co-founder? If you’re Ideo, it involves putting a modern spin on one of his most iconic creations. The design firm is paying tributing to computing pioneer Bill Moggridge with this Grid Compass-based Galaxy Tab dock, which combines the first laptop with Samsung’s slate to add content to a tribute site for the innovator. Like the original Grid, the Tab shows off content with an orange tinge — oh, and the keyboard works and it’ll charge when plugged in. Check out a break down of the Galaxy Grid’s creation in the source link below.
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Ideo honors co-founder Bill Moggridge with Galaxy Tab-based Grid laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 10
William Moggridge, portable computer and human interaction trailblazer, dies at 69
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The next time you hinge open that notebook PC and smile at a feature that makes it easier to use, give a thought to Bill Moggridge, who passed away Saturday from cancer at the age of 69. The pioneering designer invented the modern clamshell design seen in all modern laptops, and is also viewed as the father of human interaction software design.
The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since. Perhaps more importantly, when he tried to use the machine himself, Moggridge was exasperated with the difficulty and decided to take the human factor into account for software design. To that end, he engaged experts from fields like graphics design and psychology, and tried to “build empathy for the consumer into the product,” according to former partner, Professor David Kelly. The pair merged their design firms to form Ideo in 1991, and worked with clients like Apple, Microsoft and Procter & Gamble, designing products like the first Macintosh mouse and Palm V handheld along the way.
In 2010, Moggridge became the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, and was a recipient of that institution’s lifetime achievement award. He also won the Prince Philip Designer’s Prize, the longest running award of its type in the UK, given for “a design career which has upheld the highest standards and broken new ground.” See why that’s true by going to Cooper-Hewitt’s tribute video, right after break.
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Jul 17
Faraday Porteur concept e-bike becomes a reality, launches pre-sale on Kickstarter (video)
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Last time we saw the Faraday electric bike, it had just emerged victorious from the Oregon Manifest design competition. Designed by Ideo and built by Portland’s Rock Lobster Cycles, the retro-styled ride was destined to rot in concept hell for all eternity — that is until lead designer Adam Vollmer quit Ideo to press the bike into production under the Faraday Bicycles name. Now he’s perfected the design, the company’s launching a pre-sale on Kickstarter to, er, kickstart the first production run.
Don’t be fooled by its low-fi looks, parallel top tubes hold a series of lithium-ion batteries which power a front motor, good for between 10 and 15 miles of travel. The two front prongs are the basis of a modular racking system and contain a pair of LED headlamps that activate automatically in bad light. It charges in 45 minutes and weighs around 40 pounds. The bike will set you back $3,500, $300 less than when a second run is produced next year — significantly cheaper than the current price for the $5,400 Grace One we rode around New York. If you’ve got some baller-style cash to throw around, you can spend $10,000 on a collectors edition hand-finished by Rock Lobster’s Paul Sadoff. After the break we’ve got video and more details, but be warned — you might find yourself opening your wallet a little too rapidly.
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Faraday Porteur concept e-bike becomes a reality, launches pre-sale on Kickstarter (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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