Coding with Fountain Pens

The user interface design snafu that bothers me the most is the “hit cancel for credit” routine while swiping your card at a local retailer.  Clearly, it would be ideal to present a choice between credit and debit with separate buttons on the touchscreen, as opposed to defaulting to debit and requiring the user to […]

One Laptop Per Child is an effort to produce a $100 laptop that can be distributed en masse to the school children of the world.  The first pass attempt at the hardware was going for $200, featured a 400 MHz CPU, flash for storage and wifi. And it’s powered by winding. That’s great, but the […]