Cool Hunting
| 11 January 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
iPod Shuffle and Mac mini
by Josh Rubin
If my site happens to be your first stop after crawling out from under a rock, I'm pleased to let you know that much earlier today Apple announced a few new things. In the software category comes iLife 05 and iWork featuring lots of updates and one new app, Pages (a word processor). More exciting is the new hardware. Mac mini is a $500 shiny white box with a some pretty good specs for the price. Finally Apple has entered the affordable market. 
The iPod Shuffle is a very small and cute flash based music player. Subscribing to the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) philosophy, the Shuffle has no display and only offers basic functions. I'm certainly not giving up my iPod, but would consider adding a Shuffle to my mobile music arsenal-- it should be good at the gym, right?
Kid O NYC
by Josh Rubin
If you read Daddytypes, you probably already know about Kid O, the modern design toy store. Inspired by modern learning theories, Lisa Mahar opened Kid O to offer products that encourage creativity, instill independence and a desire to accomplish, and help foster a sense of self. As a new mother, Lisa spent a lot of time researching different theories of learning and child development. As an architect and designer she knew the design of the toys mattered just as much as the philosophy. That's why she offers stuff like the Froebel Gifts and Montessori blocks.
