What Kicker Was Doing the Week Ending 2009-02-01

• Gulp. U.S. firms experiencing the worst business conditions in 27 years: http://tinyurl.com/bhvt6q #
• Glucose monitoring tattoo. Wow. http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22014/ #
• Touchscreens No Substitute for Good User Experience: http://tinyurl.com/9cf6lh #
• Dan is speaking tonight in SF (for free!) http://tinyurl.com/833vl6 Added bonus: sneak peek at what we’ve been working on lately! #
• BusinessWeek on Apple’s not-so-veiled threat to Palm re: multitouch patents: http://icanhaz.com/applevpalm #
• thanks deena for turning us on to ponoko.com, yet another example of user creation merging with physical products. #
• Why designers FAIL: http://tinyurl.com/bal3pz #
• Dan is onstage now, Tapping the New Click at IXDA SF! #
• Breadcrumb-cleaning robot: http://tinyurl.com/b8o553 #
• Air Mouse Pro: iPhone to control any computer on your home network: http://tinyurl.com/bk79lk #
• Recap of Dan’s talk last night from @joshdamon on the Hot Studio blog: http://tr.im/dck8 #
• “For creative people, it is our time to be leaders, to wear the headlamp into the dark cave.” http://icanhaz.com/creativeleadership #
• The Jetsons vs. 2009 Technology: http://tinyurl.com/d6xx6b #
• Reconsidering Zune. Seriously http://tinyurl.com/cyusuv #
• Heading down to San Jose for a user research field trip! #
• More on Palm Pre, plus a diss of N95: http://tinyurl.com/ctrvfz #
• A glimpse into Michael Bierut’s notebooks: http://tinyurl.com/bz2gwl #
• We’re looking forward to our playdate with Obscura Design later this afternoon. #
• MS Surface at the Super Bowl: http://tinyurl.com/bgagpm #

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