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design for disruption: gopro.

design for disruption: gopro.

Dec 12, 2014

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eric woodman, who founded gopro, the miniature camera company, in 2002, said on sixty minutes that “it has revealed the hidden perspectives of human life.” yes, he had a stock to sell, and we expect boasts of profound impact for their products from entrepreneurs post steve jobs of course, but that is a surprisingly profound insight.

the gopro allowed people to record and share their best waves in surfing, their wildest leaps in mountain biking –and now their adventures driving.

above> photographer eric sterman using a phantom drone and hero 3+ shoots surfing the bonzai pipeline last december 2013.

gopro is helping to bring the dashboard camera into the main stream. bmw and mini now allow for control of the gopro camera from the vehicle software. the gopro seems on the verge of making the great leap that navigation units did a few years ago, from techie accessory to next cool thing. and they may fundamentally change the way we drive and think about driving.

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the story of popular dash cams in the us begins with the meteorite that exploded near the russian city of chelyabinsk on february, 15, 2013. it injured 1500 people, caused millions of rubles of damage and made americans aware that many russians had dash cams in their cars–for their own protection. not only did the cameras record celestial events, it turns out, but misdeeds by other drivers and law enforcers, posted online.

video from dash cams has a vast life online. in the u.s. it was mostly police imagery: bizarre driver responses to being pulled over and humorous dancing field sobriety tests. no wonder woodman regards the real product of the go pro corporation not as cameras, not even as compilations of video made with the cameras but as the social media surrounding the compilation of the clips. by letting us record moments of adventure, on the road, or entire journeys and sharing them with other people, dash cams could have the same effect on the experience of driving .

some drivers will want to record episodes of horror or humor, others to document rapid or romantic stretches of road. there is a long tradition of filming drives, but you pretty much had to be a professional movie maker to do it. the most famous example is the cult film of a high speed early morning run through paris made in 1976 by director claude lelouch—director of a man and woman–the high-speed short film c’était un rendez-vous.

it is a very french film and often the flavor of dash cam compilations reflects personality and nationality. the russian compilations suggest the wild west quality of its highways. japanese compilations, by contrast, include terrifying tsunami footage and accidents, maintained by japanese trucking association for safety warnings. but the japanese counterpart of russia’s flying cows is different: the japanese news service asahi shinbun reports that dora dora douga website draws 160,000 monthly viewers to a “beautiful landscape” and “unique scenery” site. the dawn of gifu, a landscape view of gifu prefecture, is most popular.

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another use for go pros has recently been proposed. officials all the way up to president obama have suggested issuing body cameras to police officers to help reduce mistaken shootings. but here too the disruptions of the innovation may surprise: won’t these cameras emphasize the point of view of the police officer more than that of the victim?

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patton-gopro-drone1gopro equipped phantom drone used by police in east harlem building explosion in new york city summer of 2014

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Instagram best practices for brands.

Mar 11, 2013

Instagram best practices for brands. one word: presence.

Product update: the little printer.

Aug 15, 2012

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If your day involves too much pinging, pinning, liking, sharing, checking in, following, digging and tweeting for your taste (and sanity), yet you can’t bring yourself to move completely off the grid, there’s an answer – a way to still be a part of your digital community, but in a refreshingly analog way.

A few months back Berg Cloud unveiled the prototype for their latest design, The Little Printer, a teeny tiny printer that uses the cloud to keep track of the tweets you follow, what your friends are up to Facebook and the pictures they take on Instagram, and relays that information in one nonaggressive ‘newspaper.’

“There’s a slightly nightmarish vision of a world full of glistening, super high-res Retina displays all over your house, a sort of Total Recall world where everything’s a TV,” Berg’s Jack Schulze told Co.Design. “These objects have to live in your home, connected, but they can’t all be ringing and pinging, winking and flashing all the time. They have to be kind of calm.”

With that in mind, Berg designed The Little Printer to make it possible for you to access the content from your social networks as well as your personal calendars and to-do lists in the comforting form of a newspaper, albeit a very small one. The Little Printer uses thermal paper, which is cheap (about .50 cents a roll) and, unlike a regular printer, doesn’t require toner. Better yet, every member of your household can use the same Little Printer for their own subscriptions, which they manage on an iPhone app, “so when Mom leaves for work at 7:30, the printer can have current news headlines, a “mini newspaper,” waiting for her to read on the train, along with a crossword and perhaps the most popular pictures from Instagram. When Dad takes the kids to school at 8:30, his daily to-do list could be ready at the door.”

But the really winning element of Berg’s design is The Little Printer’s face. They purposefully gave it a human face (that it prints itself), which might seem like nothing more than a cute touch, but it actually changes the way you think about the information and how you manage it on your many other faceless devices. You may be interacting with people all day long via email, Twitter, Facebook and all the rest, but unless you Skype a lot you’re not actually interacting with anyone face-to-face, and even then there’s a screen in the way. If everyone had The Little Printer set up on their kitchen counter or desktop, it might very well help to humanize their web-based existence, and maybe even serve as a reminder that real life happen offline.



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London 2012 ratings soar. #nbcfail a non-issue.

Aug 6, 2012

london 2012 ratings soar. so much for #NBCfail via ad age [RK]

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