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Long-term review: Lenovo’s Yoga Book, a flexible enough tool for creators?
There is a theatrical air of the imagined future about Lenovo’s Yoga Book.
On the one hand, its hinge is reminiscent of traditional book binding. On the other, it possesses an intricacy you might expect to find in some alien spacecraft buried in …
A smarter notes experience with LiquidText
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
LiquidText is an iPad app which allows the creativity and speed of free-hand annotation to co-exist with the benefits of structur…
Blackberry, Psion, Nokia & styli at #MWC17: nostalgia hasn’t felt this good for a while
Novel concepts were not absent from Mobile World Congress 2017, but the honeyed lamplight of nostalgia proved the stronger lure for journalists:
- Alcatel TCL launched the Blackberry-branded KeyOne with a physical keyboard
- HMD anchored its r…
User story: the walker and the mapped lockscreen
The lock screen wallpaper of his iPhone (a 4S) was clearly a satellite photograph of some kind. Overlaid upon it was the angular, semi-transparent blue track line of a Google Maps-style route. Some operating systems enable mapping on the lock sc…
User story: early learning the hidden costs of tablets
“Are you playing a game?” I looked up to find a boy of about 6 years old, in his school uniform and still wearing his rucksack, reaching out towards my iPad. His sister, a year or two younger, looked on with equal curiosity. I’d been absorbed in…