” You can’t judge great teachers by their looks. Or their English. Or their profession. Or their education. Or where they were born, where they live, how they dress, how much money they make.” – Alan Webber, from his book Rules of Thumb.
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 Ghosts in America by Mel Lim for Manifest Equality Check out our latest art piece for Manifest Equality. We are so happy and honored to be part of this great cause.  Manifest Equality Check out our Q&A. Why have you chosen to participate in Manifest Equality? Describe a bit about your submission to the gallery or the process you are putting into it. But now is the time, where we must fight for our civil rights as American citizens. Our feet maybe shackled, but we are united as one. We fight! We demand justice, love, equality and respect. We are not plastic Barbie dolls but we want to show you how superficial our world is. From Left to Right: Which person do you identify with? Hopefully all. What else would you like to manifest?  Close up of art piece. Hottest Tech & 3D-TV: I guess I am the type of consumer that does not embrace new technology IMMEDIATELY. I will make my own purchasing decision as I see the technology mature. I am not easily persuaded by trends, friends or peer pressure. Briefly going over TV tech, first it was the big CRT screen, then the huge project screen. They both had the lousiest definition and yet, many consumers embraced them for it’s size. Hmmmm…Finally there was HD. Even with HDTV, I waited until hardware technology converged with HDMI and Cable broadcasting technology Like any other trade show, there are great designs/inventions and there is some mediocre crap. The challenge is to weave through all the junk and discover the cool stuff. One may think that since the consumer electronics industry is so popular and Americans are embracing gadgets, that you could easily find good design. With so many products out there it is sad to say good design is not as common as it should be, with 90% of the products destined for the landfill, many manufacturers make things good enough for today. After all, there needs to be a reason to make you feel that insecure need for the newer, newest igadget 6 months later. As a sustainable designer as well as thrifty consumer, it’s always hard to justify any type of purchase. At this show, the biggest question I asked myself was, “What is going to by categorized as a luxury purchase and what is going to be a necessity?” This year at CES, there was a huge emphasis on mobile technology, smartphones, gps tech, e-readers and of course 3D TV.  Lg Chocolate Touch Continue reading “CES Day :: 2 – Mobile Tech, Smartphones, Apps and GPS” → While many of us were excited about CES, I was excited about my Zappos tour. Funny, how when it comes to anything related to shoes, no gadgets in the world can distract me (besides Apple of course!) But since Apple was not at CES this year or the last, I felt free to roam around outside of the super geek fest CES, Consumer Electronics Show. Yes. I am one of the many geeks that found this CES show quite overwhelming but under-delivered. At least to me. I am sure many of you have read the highlights of the show from these great news sources: Cnet or CNN Tech. Hence my goal is to just share my own personal views and less of the products stuff. Joe on the other hand, will have different insights than me, since he attended the Full Knowledge Track sessions at CES. He will have more hot notes to share, which we will on our next post. Arrival:  The infamous Zappos Van/ Shuttle Continue reading “Highlights from Vegas/ CES 2010 trip :: Day 1” →
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