Using a wand that lights up when an RFID tag is read, a team at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design have created a gorgeous set of animations that depict the “readable volume” of various types of RFID tags. Did [...]

Dear Patrick Kershaw I see that you are new to Twitter. You’ve posted two tweets from your Twitter account (@patrickkershaw1). Perhaps just one if we consider your latest tweet to be a sign-off: “has decided twitter is a fad… and this will [...]

This is one of a series of “classic posts“. Resurrections of old posts that I enjoyed writing, and you might enjoy reading. I had a massive flashback on Sunday. A flashback to the days of running a beat-up old car. [...]

Update for clarity: The on-demand component of TiVo is completely unusable on any ISP other than Telecom. It’s not that you have to pay for data, it’s that you can’t even get the data. I have a question currently with [...]

I had a really interesting time on the panel for a PRiNZ Event last night. We were discussing the challenges and opportunities in social media for marketing and PR, and what PR professionals can do to participate. One could easily [...]

I recently said this in response to a tweet regarding a site dedicated to shoelaces: If it exists, it has been taken too far on the Internet. I’m not sure what to call this rule. It is of course a play on [...]

From the folks at Wired.com, as part of a feature regarding the behaviour of highly-evolved humans: Look, I’m a geek. It says so right up there in the title bar. But please take it from me: friends don’t let friends [...]

I’m known to drift a little off-topic on occasion, but if you would bear with me for a few moments… Earlier this week, the NBR, one of New Zealand’s eminent printed business publications, decided to hide 20% of its content [...]

It’s the gift that keeps on giving. My initial reaction to the Weet-Bix Power Plays augmented reality implementation caused quite a stir. Earlier this week I had a great talk with the companies behind the work: Gus from Momentum, and [...]

I’ve just had an enlightening discussion with Tanne Andrews, Brand Manager at Sanitarium. I called him to ask if he had anything to say about my dissection of the appalling PowerPlays website and the subsequent response on Twitter. My opinion [...]