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I actually first noticed this yeas ago when I was in Shenzhen: electric scooters/"bicycles" were everywhere. So much for thinking that China is unwilling to limit its pollution.

Further reading about the power charging infrastructure (or, lack thereof): http://designmind.frogdesign.com/2014/01/chinas-electric-bike-charging-cultures

These guys for one. Or these folks. And these people. This is supposed to be very good. Also, these guys. Seriously, you could have just said you don't know anything about the capabilities of .NET in the first place. Or you could have just said nothing at all.

• Because the organ is decellularized and repopulated with the recipient's own tissue, the recipient does not need anti-rejection drugs.
• Because the organ is decellularized until it is the collagen matrix of the organ, it should be much easier to store and is not in danger of dying like regular organs.

Either one of these advances is a giant breakthrough in it's own right. Here is a link to a picture and story about the decullarization of rat hearts and their partially successful recullarization.

http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/health/medical-breakthroughs.html

It sounds to me like you have some basic hardware specifications and some ideas of how the device will be used - which will influence the hardware design. But need guidance in getting it from a rough pile of wires to a slick finished product.

Unless you have all the skills - board design, human factors, industrial design, materials engineering, etc. etc., you're best served by working with some professionals. Try Nectar, Frog, or IDEO for starters.

A lightsaber is a chainsaw redesigned by frogdesign.

I think you're thinking of Windows XP

Apple's UI has always been done in-house. Their HI guidelines are probably the most comprehensive ever published outside of academia.

Frog did once design hardware for Apple...they designed most of the beige "Pizza box" style Apple machines in the late '80s/early '90s (before the iMac.) Those machines looked nothing like today's curvy/shiny/artsy Macs; they look like any other PCs. So far as I can tell, thier work for Apple ended with Steve Jobs and the iMac.

1986 Sun Microsystems
1987 NeXT

They did the SPARCstation 1
They did the NeXT cube

but after that what? Packard Bell and Acer? They are clearly has-beens.

http://www.frogdesign.com/company/timeline/timelin e_index.html

Frogdesign is awesome. They've done projects for Disney before (including the Disney Cruise ship) not to mention their work in Windows XP, a longstanding relationship with Apple, Ford, Motorola... the list goes on and on.

Frogdesign is awesome. They've done projects for Disney before (including the Disney Cruise ship) not to mention their work in Windows XP, a longstanding relationship with Apple, Ford, Motorola... the list goes on and on.

Considering we're talking about design compared to the iPod, this might be a better example : )

Ah, so they're who we have to blame for that :)

-misao

Innodesign korea does the design of most of iRiver's products (warning: Flash site). They also do some samsung products, but the bulk of the work looks like outside styling and not actual operation design. One exception is a laptop designed for presenting: the main screen swivels around to point to the audience, while a smaller screen is on the backside for the presenter.

Contrast this with frogdesign, which seems more innovative. (or maybe their clients give them a longer leash)

Innodesign korea does the design of most of iRiver's products (warning: Flash site). They also do some samsung products, but the bulk of the work looks like outside styling and not actual operation design. One exception is a laptop designed for presenting: the main screen swivels around to point to the audience, while a smaller screen is on the backside for the presenter.

Contrast this with frogdesign, which seems more innovative. (or maybe their clients give them a longer leash)

Innodesign korea does the design of most of iRiver's products (warning: Flash site). They also do some samsung products, but the bulk of the work looks like outside styling and not actual operation design. One exception is a laptop designed for presenting: the main screen swivels around to point to the audience, while a smaller screen is on the backside for the presenter.

Contrast this with frogdesign, which seems more innovative. (or maybe their clients give them a longer leash)

Innodesign korea does the design of most of iRiver's products (warning: Flash site). They also do some samsung products, but the bulk of the work looks like outside styling and not actual operation design. One exception is a laptop designed for presenting: the main screen swivels around to point to the audience, while a smaller screen is on the backside for the presenter.

Contrast this with frogdesign, which seems more innovative. (or maybe their clients give them a longer leash)

...an agreement that would allow MS to buy future Apple developments. (This has a lot to do with why XP looks so much like a Macintosh OS in some ways.)

I'm not sure that's correct. Microsoft hired frogdesign to design the user interface for Windows XP ("Luna.")

frogdesign was responsible for many of the early Apple II and Macintosh industrial design (but not the Aqua user interface, which was an outgrowth of the product design of Jonathan Ives.)

For those who love -- or hate -- XP's interface, you have to thank/blame frogdesign.

...hire an industrial designer. Two good firms that specialize in industrial design are Frog Design and Ideo. Industrial designers specialize in designing human interfaces for mechanically controlled devices.

It guess it would be easy to assume he works for Apple, but many times designs like this are made by FrogDesign or another firm. I am surprised the article does not refer to where he works.

Any idea who Jonathan works for?

"How about a LAPTOP sized appliance , No hard drive, network capablity, guts could be based on one of the small PDA units, for card compatibility etc, only with a full sized keyboard and screen, it's be LIGHT, CHEAP, and battery life could be pretty amazing. Do most anything you need whilst mobile. email, documents editing, etc. LINUX based of course :)"

You are describing the batch of fullsize HPC WinCE device that came out in 1999 at the $1000 price point, the best of which were Vadem Clio or the Sharp Mobilon Tripad. Generally they had a 640x480 screen, full size keyboard, touch screen, and all day battery life. On the down side they had slow processors and only 16 or 32 MB RAM (which you split between memory and storage) and WinCE as the OS but that at least could be changed. While it didn't have a network jack, but it did have a PCMCIA slot.

I haven't seen a refresh of this form factor come it out since, probably since the drop in notebook prices into the sub $1000 range has squeezed these out of profitably. It would be interesting though to see one of these with a lot more memory.

If you read this less superficially, it's clear that Luddite Industries is an elaborate gag. (See for example the comments about the "Wooden Auto Company".) A quick check of whois reveals that the domain name is owned by Prophet Communications, a subsidiary of the industrial design firm frog design.