links for 2010-01-19

"I was trained as an industrial designer, but it took me a long time before I realized the difference between being a designer and thinking like one. Seven years of undergraduate and graduate education and 15 years of professional practice went by before I had any inkling that what I was doing was more than simply a link in a chain that connected a client’s engineering department to the folks upstairs in marketing."

"For years my wife has been on at me to put a computer into the kitchen where she can manage her recipes, shopping lists, to do lists and access the internet for looking up various things. After looking at a couple of pretty basic and well overpriced commercial units we decied to have a crack at doing this ourselves."

"It's been a busy year. See updates on our product iterations, clinical data results, pharma customer traction, distribution strategy, new patent filings, press and awards, team growth and plans for the new year. "

"I believe that it is alright to create a stupid and irresponsible game, I really do."