Ouman

We've gotten very good at designing materials, but nature still has a few manufacturing tricks we haven't figured out

The technology has improved quite a bit. The experience of owning one? That's a different story

Quite cool that the solution was basically to let physics do most of the work instead of adding more mechanical complexity

I love seeing everyday technology at this scale

And the worst part is how you eventually just get used to these things

It may be more like two nearby meanings getting translated into the same English word than an independent Japanese version of the exact same homonym

The knob is such an underrated part of this. For something you adjust constantly, a physical rotary control is just better than tapping through presets or opening an app

That's a really useful data point. Maybe malleability doesn't need to be something 99% of users actively care about

Maybe the real lesson from spreadsheets is that the customization layer isn't a feature, it's the product

This makes me miss the era when computers felt more like environments than products