Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat has become a highlight of my year.  It is a wonderful event run by fabulous people (thank you Suzanne and Corny!) and incredible teachers.  Even though I don't get to take classes, I am inspired by the awesome knitters and spinners that come through ...

Touch screen interfaces are generally hard and flat. Impress tries to break from that tradition by making the display flexible. Allowing you to feel more like you are interacting with the display. In the image above, the circles seem to physically fall into the dent made by your fingers. Another app...

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a safe and sane holiday season. I have my first FO of the year.  The Leaves Shawl (Ravelry link) is done and blocked.  I am so freaking in love with it! On cardoon, the only green thing in my garden.  This picture shows the color correctly...

Mice are small and warm and fit in our palms cozily. Some have three buttons, some have two and a wheel, some have three buttons where one of them is also a wheel. Some have only one ball, like Hitler, and some don’t even have that. Computer mouse, the pointing device, celebrated its 40th birt...

A bit of drive-by blogging today.  There is so much news I barely know where to begin.  Brooke and I just got back from SOAR.  What a great time!  Seriously good fun.  We went as participants, not as vendors, which was a nice break.  It is good to have time to take clas...

blogrodent posted a photo: Just some exposed rebar set in old concrete on a bridge in a park nearby. The photo actually turned out uninteresting. Strangely, the treatment to black and white relieved its tediousness somewhat. Now it's almost ... pretty! (2008-08-10-rebar-00148-new)...

You know how it is when all your friends are doing something and you aren't?  You start thinking that maybe there is a reason why they are all doing it.  Spindle spinning was this something for me.  In the last few months my spindle collection has grown from the Schacht Hi-Lo and and ...

Les terminaux tactiles deviennent de plus en plus pris??s : iPhone, LG Viewty, Samsung F490,F700,F480,le Player Addict, LG KF700 et 750, HTC Touch Cruise, HTC Touch Diamond, Sony Ericsson Xperia, Sony Ericsson P5, BlackBerry Thunder Cette explosion du tactile dans le mobile a notamment ??t?? engendr...

Last week was a week of watches at GearCrave.  We featured a very popular giveaway with Obaku Harmony watches, which received quite a lot of love from GearCravers.  In other watch news, we found the Sentio Digital Tactile watch, a beautiful, rugged metal watch designed to be invisible to its targe...

I am still floating on a cloud.  Stitches West was a great event for me and for Tactile.  Add that to the great time we had at Madrona and you've got a woman who feels like she is on top of the world!  Our booth with Kristine of A Verb for Keeping Warm was busy and we thoroughly enjoy...