Information Maven: Greg Meyer

Owen Linzmayer writes about the making of the “1984″ commercial for the Macintosh. Enjoy this blast from the past.

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This experimental camera is an amazing advance in the field of photography. By placing a small light-sensing array between the CCD sensor and the main lens, the camera captures data for several potential photographs at once. In addition to the traditionally captured image, this design can reapply the metering information from other portions […]

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Whatever you do, dontclick.it.
This site is a fascinating usability experiment and design study for the use of non-clicking metaphors in online content. Even when I tried not to click, I managed to click a few times.
Enjoy!

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Explanations abound for the exploits of a physics professor who lies under a bed of nails while an assistant breaks concrete blocks, plunges his hand into molten lead, and other tricks.

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Some enterprising soul has posted video game ads from 1982. It’s a great window into time to see what was important 23 years ago to the world of gaming. It’s even more amusing to think that my phone has more memory and gaming capability than most of the systems listed here. […]

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