Blog Title: Wings On Some Wheels | A Kyle Mayne Weblog

The Wrestler

Starting today Fox searchlight is sending out its first trailer for ‘The Wrestler’ Their mission: to make filmgoers want to see a movie that looks very male. Mickey Rourke plays a down-on-his-luck, aging wrestler facing the end of his career who suddenly needs to reach out to his daughter, poignantly played by Evan Rachel Wood, read more..

Jon Burgerman

I’ve always been the sort of person who buys art which invokes an emotional spark (it is the reason why I have Robert Olley’s Coal, Ships, Fish & Chips on my bedroom wall). I love Lowry but that’s only because of the childhood sentiments. I suppose the point I’m trying to raise is that I’ve read more..

IDEO – ‘Deep Dive’

Last week in class we got presented with a video from IDEO in Palo Alto and their unique brand of brainstorming called ”Deep Dive,” a sort of total immersion into the problem at hand. It’s one company’s secret weapon for innovation. I liked it, I liked their process, but you can make up your own read more..

Magnetic Blinds

I really like simple ideas, magnetic blinds now that really would work… Apologies if you have already seen this, it is floating around the intertubes at the moment! - Kyle

Working on a Dream

From a post on Backstreets; Bruce was hanging out with outlaw pete thinking this was my lucky day, they had been working on a dream of getting rich by robbing the local bank. Due to the credit crunch Bruce thought that the banks would not have much to take so they went to the local wall read more..

The Beatles iPod

Now this wasn’t the limited edition iPod I imagined, but doesn’t that box just make it look so cool to own. Snap out of it Kyle! It is an iPod Classic with 13 Beatles CDs. TUT TUT I still want one ; Limited Edition Ultimate Collector’s Box: Beatles iPod Set. The ultimate Beatles collector’s gift. read more..

Usability in Remote Controls

I have just found these simplified TV remote controls from Bill Moggridge’s "Designing Interactions". It is a interesting concept, what buttons on your remote do you use daily? -Kyle p.s kylemayne.com is still alive

Thomas Cook.

After spending a few weeks online searching for a holiday my parents managed to get away to Ibiza yesterday. For the past few weeks my mum in particular has been using the web a lot to search for holidays, I don’t take much notice and let her get on with it. I wouldn’t class my read more..

Chat on a 4G Nano

    So, is this new iPod Nano? Who knows but it did get me thinking. Last year the iPod user interface got a fresh new update (see second image above). On the supposedly new Nano the screen is much longer, but doesn’t look as wide as the fat 3g Nano from last year (which could read more..

A fish, sea monkeys or a cat?

I’ve just had an argument on the phone with an O2 customer service agent. After some confusion I now needed to change the password on my account, this couldn’t be done without knowing the answer to my secret answer. CORRECTION the secret answer and the question which relates to that answer, I needed to know read more..