Steve Clayton
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” - Peter Drucker
The Social Network: LIKE
I saw The Social Network last week at an advance screening and was expecting it to be a snoozeathon...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 10/03/2010
Will your mobile interpret your mood?
If EmotionSense has their way then yes, it will. I know what you’re thinking (because I can...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 10/01/2010
Augmented mobility
I quite like this idea – a companion device to your phone that lets you control your tunes, read...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/30/2010
Are thumbdrives going floppy?
Much as I like the design of the Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go Clip-it USB Drive, I’m not going to buy one....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/29/2010
My Twitter addiction
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/29/2010
Pinning sites in IE9
Only today did I really start looking in any detail at pinned sites in IE9 and as you can see above,...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/28/2010
Windows Live Spaces heads to Wordpress
A few friends have been asking me for a long while what the future of Windows Live Spaces is. I’ve...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/27/2010
Pin Windows blog and Bing in IE9
You’d expect the Windows blog to be tight with their comrades in IE9 and sure enough they are....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/25/2010
Microsoft’s vision of the future
Courtesy of this last months EDGE magazine from the UK. I couldn’t resist grabbing a copy from...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010
Supermodel thin Dell Vostro
A pal asked me for a laptop recommendation this evening and I have to confess I haven’t been keeping...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010
Augmented Reality Book
I stumbled across this Mark Lukas video and realised I’ve seen the technology that can make this...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010
Of mice and…mice
After a few weeks of using the Arc Touch Mouse I decided it was high time I posted a review. Stephen...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010
Unlock your hotel room with smartphone
InterContinental is about to start allowing guests to unlock their hotel rooms with smartphones....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010
Putting soul in to your products
Welcome to the most powerful naturally aspirated road car engine in the world today. A beautiful...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/23/2010
Two of my favourite brands come together
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/23/2010
Halo infographic
Fine work by Pete Harrison – available for just under 6 of those fine British pounds....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/21/2010
Lenovo Power Hub
Some smart thinking by the boffins at Lenovo brings us the Lenovo Power Hub. A power adapter that...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/21/2010
OpenTable on Windows Phone 7
Another one to add to my list of apps when the marketplace opens. Of course I know this (and many...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/21/2010
Phaidon design
I’m a big fan of Phaidon books – they were some of the heaviest items that shipped in boxes with me...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/21/2010
Remember Steve Masters?
I’ve been doing a lot of work on future thinking of late and what the technology trends we see today...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/20/2010
Mercedes service augmentation
Some day all cars will operate this way – maybe. Mercedes-Benz just announced a new app that...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/20/2010
The ship of Windows Phone 7
Well I didn’t personally ship Windows Phone but some of my friends did…congrats to ‘em. I found this...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/17/2010
Fingers that measure
I’m not so sure about this concept called Smart Fingers. Wouldn’t it be just as fast to use a tape...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/17/2010
The credit card of the future
Sometimes the most obvious things become the most elegant things. Card 2.0 was shown at DEMO by...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/17/2010
Microsoft Home: blurring physical and digital
I’ve been spending some time in the Microsoft Home of late – I got an insider tour and most recently...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/17/2010
What colors dominate the web?
Ryan Coates shared this with me via Twitter as he thought it’d be right up my street. He was...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/16/2010
Associated Press site on IE9
My friends at Vectorform pointed me to this video that talks about the site they built for...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/16/2010
Windows Phone 7 apps
Demos of 5 apps coming to Windows Phone 7. I need ‘em….now Netflix Twitter Flixster OpenTable...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/16/2010
Making of the IE9 MONA website
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/16/2010
A closer look at my 1080p webcam
The latest device to show up in my device center is the LifeCam Studio which was announced earlier...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/15/2010
The Killers go with IE9
To get a sense of the capability of IE9 and the HTML5 support, check out The Killers website...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/15/2010
Dell Inspiron Duo
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/15/2010
IE9 beta is baked and hot
DOWNLOAD LINK IE9…putting websites at the center of the experience. The beta is now available and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/15/2010
1080p webcam
Our hardware team has been keeping busy – the Arc Touch Mouse has been a hit with everyone I have...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/13/2010
Screens everywear
Often the most elegant solutions are the most obvious. The SEIL bag by Lee Myung Su design lab was a...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/12/2010
The future of shopping?
This video from Cisco is so good in so many ways though a quick reality check with my wife confirmed...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/10/2010
Windows Phone 7 features
I’d missed this Windows Phone 7 video…it does a nice job of showing what it’s all about. I’ve had my...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/10/2010
Microsoft Surface and Vodafone
I’d heard that Vodafone was using Surface in some of their stores – the unit and the application it...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/07/2010
Awaiting the Anna Wintour backlash
I installed my new Arc Touch Mouse on Friday evening and noticed I still had my Wireless Mouse 5000...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/07/2010
Here comes the long weekend
…new gadgets in the Clayton household to play with. The all new Arc Touch Mouse. Oh and the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/03/2010
More visions of the future
Some more glimpses of how the future may look, courtesy of Freescale Semiconductor. There are some...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/03/2010
The future of screen technology
cool video from an Open Innovation experiment from The Astonishing Tribe. What we think of as a...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/02/2010
The story of the Arc Touch Mouse
Young Kim talks about the design process behind the Arc Touch Mouse that we announced today. I...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/01/2010
My impressions of Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse
Okay, this is hardly a surprise now given all the leaks and peeks but I thought I’d give you my...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/01/2010