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Matt Cottam's "Heirloom Electronics"

This past weekend's sold-out Interaction10 conference was attended by an international community of experts in Web, software, mobile device and service design. But rather than an emphasis on technology and interface design techniques, the zeitgeist was decidedly low-tech, with diverse speakers discussing topics including storytelling, drawing by hand and meaning in the context of design.

For a conference (thankfully) without a specified theme, there was an emergent thread of looking ahead by looking backwards. In the case of materials, Matt Cottam of Tellart presented his exploratory designs in "heirloom electronics"--handcrafting devices out of wood, which, unlike our mass produced plastic boxes, gracefully wear and change through their long-term use, gaining keepsake qualities.

A new-old way to engage with our digital photos?

In a similar vein, Richard Banks of Microsoft Research discussed the "future of looking back"--how we might store, organize and retrieve the vast...

Amid reports that his wife Elin Nordegren is consulting with a high-powered divorce attorney, Tiger Woods and his estimated net worth of $600 million - considered one of the biggest in professional sports, thanks in large part to sponsorship endorsements worth some $1 billion - is coming under scrutiny, should a divorce necessitate a need to divide his estate. In addition to issues of custody involving the couple's two children, Sam, 2, and Charlie, 10 months, experts in family law are saying that the factors involved would include the location of the divorce filing and what terms were specified in any prenuptial agreement. Reports say that in this instance,...