Frog Design is taking a bold move to position itself for the new wave of Smart Grid enabled devices and technologies.
Anyone who can recall the days when nightly television stations signed off to the National Anthem will also recall how simple those television interfaces were. At most, early television controls consisted of a a knob to turn the power on, another knob to adjust the volume, and a dial to change the channel to a handful of preset stations. Today’s multimedia remotes seem more like a NASA mission control lab by comparison.
Tomorrow’s Smart Grid-enabled appliances will offer tremendous control over how we use energy and infinite ways to customize our technology environments to operate more efficiently and behave according to our preferences — That is only if it’s easy enough to do so. It’s no easy task to make the complex appear simple. Kudos to Frog Design for recognizing an opportunity and positioning themselves accordingly.
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Really interested to see the development of the PhoneGap framework for mobile application development.
At Gorilla, we’ve always taken a pretty agnostic approach to application development. We believe that the best approach is the one that’s the most flexible, the most readily adaptable to a multitude of devices, operating systems, and browser software, and the one that leverages common industry standards that any developer worth their salt has already taken to heart.
The explosive growth in the mobile application space presents opportunities (a recent Gartner Report predicts that a majority of Ecommerce transactions will take place via mobile devices by 2014) as well as significant challenges both for the developers of such software and the clients who fund their production. We as developers must devote resources to learning each independent target platform. And our clients must often make a choice regarding which platform(s) to target and, perhaps more importantly, which to support going forward.
Kudos to PhoneGap for presenting a viable approach we can all be on board with – Apple, Google, Palm, Moto, Microsoft, Whomever, Whenever, Wherever.
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This has got to be one of my all time favorite Google logos. Happy birthday, Pac Man.
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Ever wonder what a certain color means in another culture? Did you know that in many Western cultures, purity is commonly represented by the color white? Did you know that same color in Hindu cultures commonly represents death?
Check out this phenomenal infographic linking color and perceived meaning across many cultures. By the very talented David McCandless, a frequent contributor to GOOD Magazine.
Colours in Cultures
via @RBIRD
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