Photo credit: Venetia Tay. In cultures where guests are frequently invited into the home, the home is the dominant mechanism for communicating stories about ourselves, what …
Is this the year that Japan bounced back, or goes deeper into the morass? Mobile phone rmote controlled robot, Tokyo.
What we document. What we affect.
Chinese brand Huawei positioning itself in the Ethiopian market.
Square’s ‘put it on my tab’ in action, used by Grignani.
Screen protector – to narrow the viewing cone on this Tokyo phone.
New article up on The Atlantic on shanzhai innovation.
Cairo, no less.
Phone number for sale in the electronics market. 50 Egyptian Pound (6 Euro) premium for an easy to remember number sequence, and an additional 25 …
Uploading airtime. One of the 170 creative commons photos from the Afghanistan mobile money project. Download all 170 photos here (43MB).
Phone charging stall, art.
For the lady wishing to know more about this club host – expect to QR barcodes to be supplanted by facial recognition – still through …
What hands do whilst waiting for devices to catch up with their intent.
Article on the MIT Technology Review on remote monitoring of mobile phones – recording data and phone use, battery life. Remote diagnostics is nothing new …
https://janchipchase.com/2010/10/motivations-for-monitoring/
Skullphone actually.
Chinese market – where this retailer liberally applies hologram stickers to new products.
https://janchipchase.com/2010/09/authentification-on-demand/
It still surprises me that teams let this one slip: if you’re running a field study – remove a simple barrier to communication by buying …
Our local guides here schooled us on Afghan romance 101 – how boys/men and girls/women find ways to bridge the significant gulf between the sexes …
https://janchipchase.com/2010/08/cold-calling-afghan-romance-101/
The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but …
https://janchipchase.com/2010/08/from-is-this-you-to-this-is-me/
Thanks to everyone who squeezed into the Design Mind speaker series event on Design Research – we expected 200 and over 400 turned up, and …
(Or can it? A % of those customers will have 2nd and 3rd subscriptions) An ITU press release from early 2010 with the estimate of 5 …
https://janchipchase.com/2010/07/5-billion-customers-cant-be-wrong/
In a world of personal music devices the taxi driver with the audio-in cable is king. Careening around Almaty listening to the driver’s head banging …
The ease and speed with which we effectively move to having multiple device access, and increasingly multiple screens. Implications for new forms of task-flow, interaction; …