A little misleading as regards the Japanese technological landscape, but still important.

I fear that, if not checked, this sort of thing may well be the death-knell of NYC as a creative enterprise. Retrieval, reification and vitrification are never good signs of a robustly healthy place with lots of new ideas to contribute, and these things in and of themselves are not sufficiently novel to constitute a creative response to the times.

From "location-aware" to "location-specific." Note restaurant wait time and menu-on-personal-device use cases.

Predictive analytics. Oh joy.

Via Cheathco.

"Retrofitting Suburbia."

The food options for JFK Terminal 5, aka Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal. : . )

Counter-top scanner promises to "automate" the grocery shopping.

Transactions in context, and the specter of cascading EPIC FAIL via preemptive purchase heuristics.

Via Cheathco. It was only a matter of time...

Piquant look at Nokia's retail experience vs. Apple's, toe-to-toe across Regent St.

In which NYC begins to catch up with the rest of the world, with the "assistance" of Cingular, MasterCard and Citibank. Via Timo.

More of interest because of what it implies about consumers' hunger for some inchoate sense of "authenticity" than anything else.

"Towards the end of 2005, stocks were finally depleted, and no more would be ready until spring 2006." (*Does the Homer dance.)

Bryan Boyer's cream of the crop, circa 2001

Walter Benjamin, ah yeah

Via Fabio: There's nothing like validation, even so long after the fact. ; . )