How's this sound: rather than hopping on the subway, when in a large city you'd hop into a little pod hanging from an elevated track. It would have pedals. You would then...

Spotted on Yanko Design, a baton style mobile phone concept by designer Marc Schömann, using haptic technology to provide physical feedback for making a call. To turn...

If there's one pearl of wisdom that I've discovered throughout my existence on this earth that holds true, it would be this - never argue with a woman on how many shoes...

Coolest Gadgets via Tuvie reports on a new cell phone designed to commemorate France’s Independence Day (July 14) by bearing a strong resemblance to the Eiffel Tower. ...

A few weeks ago, I gave an introductory Concepts talk as a Google tech talk. It was an hour-long introduction to generic programming and concepts, and I highly recommend...

Spotted on Yanko Design, an umbrella with a bluetooth enabled handle so you can use your cell phone hands free. By designer Mikhail Stawsky. Related, sort of: -- an...

TiddlyWiki can be extended by InstallingPlugins that implement new Macros, Themes, Tweaks or other features. The easiest way of InstallingPlugins is to use...

TiddlyWiki is a complete wiki in a single HTML file. It contains the entire text of the wiki, and all the JavaScript, CSS and HTML goodness to be able to display it, and...

The concepts proposal contains a feature called “requirement propagation” (formerly referred to as “constraint propagation”), which implicitly...

The C++ community has known for a long time that the STL iterator requirements are too strict. There have been various attempts at refactoring the iterator concepts to...

ConceptGCC is a prototype implementation of the Concepts language feature for C++0x, which offers improved type-checking for C++ templates and complete support for the...

Doxygen is a great tool for turning C++ code and comments into reference documentation. We would absolutely love to use Doxygen in the ConceptGCC standard library, and in...

We recently decided that we needed a new concept, DerivedFrom, to express the requirement for an inheritance relationship between two types. This concept has the...

The Evolution Working Group of the ISO C++ committee just voted the main concepts proposal “to core”, with two minor additions: * We will add a built-in...

There are two upcoming concepts tutorials where you can learn all about concepts and how they fit into C++. The first will be a 90-minute tutorial at ACCU 2007, on April...

BoostCon 2007 is coming up next week, and will be full of interesting sessions on Boost and C++0x. I’ll be giving a half-day tutorial on concepts, and have rolled a...

The concepts specification has contained wording to permit default implementations of associated functions “forever”, which permits one to write concepts that...

The first formal wording for concepts is now available as part of the pre-meeting mailing for the upcoming ISO C++ committee meeting in Oxford, UK this April. This...

Last week, around 15 members of the ISO C++ standards committee met for two days at Google to discuss the concepts proposal and tie down various details. Some syntax has...

Rachel Hinman’s going on a generative sprint for the next three months. “For the next 90 days, I’m going to think about, sketch, draw, and prototype ideas...