Steve Clayton

“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” - Peter Drucker

The Social Network: LIKE

I saw The Social Network last week at an advance screening and was expecting it to be a snoozeathon...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 10/03/2010

Will your mobile interpret your mood?

If EmotionSense  has their way then yes, it will. I know what you’re thinking (because I can...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 10/01/2010

Augmented mobility

I quite like this idea – a companion device to your phone that lets you control your tunes, read...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/30/2010

Are thumbdrives going floppy?

Much as I like the design of the Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go Clip-it USB Drive, I’m not going to buy one....

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/29/2010

My Twitter addiction

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Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/29/2010

Pinning sites in IE9

Only today did I really start looking in any detail at pinned sites in IE9 and as you can see above,...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/28/2010

Windows Live Spaces heads to Wordpress

A few friends have been asking me for a long while what the future of Windows Live Spaces is. I’ve...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/27/2010

Pin Windows blog and Bing in IE9

You’d expect the Windows blog to be tight with their comrades in IE9 and sure enough they are....

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/25/2010

Microsoft’s vision of the future

Courtesy of this last months EDGE magazine from the UK. I couldn’t resist grabbing a copy from...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010

Supermodel thin Dell Vostro

A pal asked me for a laptop recommendation this evening and I have to confess I haven’t been keeping...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010

Augmented Reality Book

I stumbled across this Mark Lukas video and realised I’ve seen the technology that can make this...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010

Of mice and…mice

After a few weeks of using the Arc Touch Mouse I decided it was high time I posted a review. Stephen...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010

Unlock your hotel room with smartphone

InterContinental is about to start allowing guests to unlock their hotel rooms with smartphones....

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/24/2010

Putting soul in to your products

Welcome to the most powerful naturally aspirated road car engine in the world today. A beautiful...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/23/2010

Two of my favourite brands come together

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Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/23/2010

Halo infographic

Fine work by Pete Harrison – available for just under 6 of those fine British pounds....

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/21/2010

Lenovo Power Hub

Some smart thinking by the boffins at Lenovo brings us the Lenovo Power Hub. A power adapter that...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/21/2010

OpenTable on Windows Phone 7

Another one to add to my list of apps when the marketplace opens. Of course I know this (and many...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/21/2010

Phaidon design

I’m a big fan of Phaidon books – they were some of the heaviest items that shipped in boxes with me...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/21/2010

Remember Steve Masters?

I’ve been doing a lot of work on future thinking of late and what the technology trends we see today...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/20/2010

Mercedes service augmentation

  Some day all cars will operate this way – maybe. Mercedes-Benz just announced a new app that...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/20/2010

The ship of Windows Phone 7

Well I didn’t personally ship Windows Phone but some of my friends did…congrats to ‘em. I found this...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/17/2010

Fingers that measure

I’m not so sure about this concept called Smart Fingers. Wouldn’t it be just as fast to use a tape...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/17/2010

The credit card of the future

Sometimes the most obvious things become the most elegant things. Card 2.0 was shown at DEMO by...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/17/2010

Microsoft Home: blurring physical and digital

I’ve been spending some time in the Microsoft Home of late – I got an insider tour and most recently...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/17/2010

What colors dominate the web?

Ryan Coates shared this with me via Twitter as he thought it’d be right up my street. He was...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/16/2010

Associated Press site on IE9

My friends at Vectorform pointed me to this video that talks about the site they built for...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/16/2010

Windows Phone 7 apps

Demos of 5 apps coming to Windows Phone 7. I need ‘em….now Netflix Twitter Flixster OpenTable...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/16/2010

Making of the IE9 MONA website

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Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/16/2010

A closer look at my 1080p webcam

The latest device to show up in my device center is the LifeCam Studio which was announced earlier...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/15/2010

The Killers go with IE9

To get a sense of the capability of IE9 and the HTML5 support, check out The Killers website...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/15/2010

Dell Inspiron Duo

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Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/15/2010

IE9 beta is baked and hot

DOWNLOAD LINK IE9…putting websites at the center of the experience. The beta is now available and...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/15/2010

1080p webcam

Our hardware team has been keeping busy – the Arc Touch Mouse has been a hit with everyone I have...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/13/2010

Screens everywear

Often the most elegant solutions are the most obvious. The SEIL bag by Lee Myung Su design lab was a...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/12/2010

The future of shopping?

This video from Cisco is so good in so many ways though a quick reality check with my wife confirmed...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/10/2010

Windows Phone 7 features

I’d missed this Windows Phone 7 video…it does a nice job of showing what it’s all about. I’ve had my...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/10/2010

Microsoft Surface and Vodafone

I’d heard that Vodafone was using Surface in some of their stores – the unit and the application it...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/07/2010

Awaiting the Anna Wintour backlash

I installed my new Arc Touch Mouse on Friday evening and noticed I still had my Wireless Mouse 5000...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/07/2010

Here comes the long weekend

…new gadgets in the Clayton household to play with. The all new Arc Touch Mouse. Oh and the...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/03/2010

More visions of the future

Some more glimpses of how the future may look, courtesy of Freescale Semiconductor. There are some...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/03/2010

The future of screen technology

cool video from an Open Innovation experiment from The Astonishing Tribe. What we think of as a...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/02/2010

The story of the Arc Touch Mouse

Young Kim talks about the design process behind the Arc Touch Mouse that we announced today. I...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/01/2010

My impressions of Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse

Okay, this is hardly a surprise now given all the leaks and peeks but I thought I’d give you my...

Author: stevecla01 Date: 09/01/2010

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