Forethink Design

I love ice cream. More specifically I love italian style gelato. Gustimo is a gelato store where I can get best gelato in Korea. Not only tastes great, style of gellato displaying is fascionating. Couple of hours a go, I bought a small cup of gellato. It was just 30 min before closing store. I could observe all 4 guys were doing something on gellato (Photo on top). They arrange gellato with scoop. Push it to front end and put some original ingredient on it. Otherwise usual ice cream bulk drum is consumed from top. As you can see, there is big difference in displaying. Gellato on right picture looks fresh, clean and beautiful texture by design intention. Ice cream on left picture looks like a colored cement. Looks good and tastes great. I can't stop loving it.

Inflation of gas price is incredible. So nowadays I'm using self-service gas station where I can save 10 cents for every gallon. Self-service at gas station is not popular yet in Korea. As you know, if gasoline car eats diesel, it will kill your engine. (If you have no idea about that.. Pls. remember it). In case of my car needs gasoline which is coded as yellow. In Korea, all gasoline nozzle is colored in yellow and diesel is green (One pump can be used for both type of gas). Even though I had not been used gas pump while I'm driving, it is easy to recognize. But there is still a chance for an error. Sometimes new gas service man makes confusion with car type. Because most of all SUV in Korea has diesel engine usually but all imported SUV is gasoline engine usually. But it seems different in every country. Often red is used for premium quality branded gasoline. In many cases, pump machine has a color of the company brand. Ex. Esso gas station use white for Regular, blue for Ex

I'm a wine lover. I love have chatting with my friends and drinking good wine. "Cavas Submarinas" seem just a good Chilean wine. But I noticed the name has something special. Good wine need time and place to be matured. Dungeon or underground has been great place for preserving wine for years. But in case of "Cavas Submarinas", they dump wine boxes into sea and scuba-diver will harvest it later. Of course, dumped location should be a secret because it is open water. I guess the dump place is quiet underwater and temperature will be consistent forever. No electricity or guard is needed of course. Just like finding a treasure of sunken ship, it will be great fun. In terms of tasting, it is a Pinot noir, fruity and med body. I would like to recommend it for your dinner. In perspective of business model, it can be interesting. Space is limited at dry land. Keeping temp and guarding is not an easy job at all. Preserving wine needs long time. It might be able to retur

Karmen is king of nerds. Pentagon sponsored his project to make innovative prosthetic arm for people who lost a arm or arms. Please play the video from link. It is really beautiful machine. It just looks like a Jedi arm for Luke Skywalker who lost his arm from battle with Vader. Karmen shows us how team work of ingenuity can improve human life. It reminds me that improving life should be top priority for design. Link: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/video?id=221 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen http://www.dekaresearch.com/

Wheel chair was too big for trunk. But this car 'Sephia' from KIA (Hyundai motors) is not that small car. Wheelbase of this model is around 2500mm. Do we need to make more folding & compact wheel chair? or to let car designers think about wheel chair size rather than size of Golf bag or Ski? Apparently, the driver of car and the driver of wheel chair had a hard time with it.

Is it time for touch interface? I would say yes for my job security. I think I can make a carreer plan based on touch interface for another 5 years at least. Look at this. It is studio of CNN situation room for 2008 US presidential election. Yesterday was Super Tuesday. Every new visualization technique have been introduced at election time. This time CNN show off big size touch panel. It is not that big. All corners are touchable and display amazing quality of photo, map and graphs. It seems familiar. Probably one from Jeff Han's multi touch technology. Yes, it is big iPhone. CNN's election board is fantastic. You can manipulate all complex election information with just some touches. Camera man just need to zoom in/out while two guys are talking about it and simulate it on screen. Graph can be simulated by scenario and you can understand why and how a region is bonded with election information. I believe all school and conference room of companies need that soon. Reference ht

I just got a brand new PC from my company. It is HP Compaq8510W. I don't know why but HP still uses Compaq for notePC brand name. On palm rest, there are 3 sticker labels. NVDIA, INTEL and HP... OK, I understand marketing guys want to show off their brand. But please stop it. At least, please make it easy to remove. I used my hair dryer and nail. First and second was easy. But NVIDIA's label was really sticky. Do you think it help brand recognition? Actually it might cause small problem with palmrest usability. These stickers are supposed to be removed after opening the box. Actually, some...many people just let it go and never remove it until the PC die or return. Even some of my friend wants to keep it and think it is decorative. But I'm pretty sure that stickers are never rendered in original design. Otherwise I saw new Apple Macbook Air at same day. Probably that's why I'm complaining about it.