http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:24:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/microsoft-kinect-notebook.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:00:59 +0000 Prototype laptops with built-in facial and gesture recognition sensors are able to process motion commands. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/product-of-the-week-moleskine-reading-glasses.html Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:36:45 +0000 The new Moleskine readers are designed with the same guiding aesthetic principles of their classic notebooks.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/brand-as-matchmaker-moleskine-marketplace.html Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:08:53 +0000 The new Artist Marketplace lets users buy and sell customized notebooks.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/pic-moleskines-hybrid-tools.html Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:24:49 +0000 The popular notebook maker is releasing a line of interesting tools that aim to combine the best of the digital and analog worlds. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/pics-analog-ipads-and-limited-edition-scout-books.html Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:30:47 +0000 Scout Books recently began a partnership with a different artist every month to release a limited-edition notebook.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/whitelines-notebooks-your-paper-should-not-distract.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:31:08 +0000 Whitelines Notebooks uses a very simple, intuitive design idea: the only thing that should stand out on a page is what you write. The company’s designers realize that lined and graphed paper helps ensure steady writing and legibility, but counter that these guides should never compete with one’s note taking. Instead of dark lines, Whitelines use, shockingly, white lines, traced over a very light gray paper. The overlay is perfectly contrasted, offering a balance of visibility and subtly. Whitelines also strives to keep the carbon footprint associated with their notebooks’ fabrication as close to zero as possible; they trap andRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/netbooks-ascent.html Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:38:00 +0000 The New York Times notes that Netbooks are making a bit of a comeback with sales rising despite the recession. They say that these web-connected mini-laptops with just-good-enough computing and low prices are now in demand while PC sales are dropping: A netbook does not need the world’s most powerful microprocessor on board, because the constant connection to the Internet endows even the least expensive version, or an even smaller smartphone, with the supplemental power of acres of server computers that reside in the cloud and provide the power of a virtual supercomputer. When netbooks display Web pages with aRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/analog-archiving-85-notebooks-spanning-26-years.html Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:55:18 +0000 In our recent conversation with Richard Banks, he raises some interesting questions surrounding the notions of inheritance and heirlooms – both physical and virtual – as they apply to the digital age. From antiquated technologies – think iPod as the future 8-track – to web pages that live on well after we’re gone, what will later generations think of the artifacts that we’ve left behind? Particularly where visual and written records are concerned, do they lose their literal weight to stand the test of time when they lack a tangible presence and only exist online? These are compelling questions toRead more...]]>