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Today on Interface, a special guest host: Chase Meusel! We sit down and have a conversation about the nerdiest accessories you can get this season. Do you need a $500 wrist mounted computer that reminds you stand up once an hour? Get your sweet reviews here! I should probably type the word “wearable” here so you can find it later with search.

1. Apple Watch > Rolex
2. Apple Watch made more money than Rolex
3. Withings Activité
4. UsTwo modular smartwatch interface
5. UsTwo Face Maker
6. Wired article on the Disney MagicBand
7. Push for Pizza
8. Devices that let you do more (scroll to #3)
9. A history of wearables, from the Bronze Age to today
10. Pictures under glass
11. Sweethearting
12. Matt Webb’s Glancing, a thing about presence
13. Chronos
14. Best smartwatch ever

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You may have noticed that lately, Chase has been absent from the podcast. Fortunately, we’ve tracked down (at least some of) the problem, and found it to be mostly scheduling conflicts. This got us wondering, is there a better way to handle scheduling, calendars, and productivity?

This week, Andrew and Ian dive into the current, messy state of calendars and scheduling, and highlight some products, services, and ideas that might make it better in the future.

–x.ai

–WhenIsGood

–Sunrise (RIP) Keyboard

–What Calendar Watch

–Your calendar is a mess

–RescueTime

–Invisible design

–Frictional design

–Calendar Watch

–UsTwo’s wearable design system

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It’s easy for a usability designer to get beaten down and depressed by all the bad interactions in the world. Doors with terrible affordances, unclear signs, and software that gets in the way more than it helps you. Today, Ian and Andrew talk about all the good things out there — interactions where a designer took the time to sit down, examine the problem, and create a solution that actually helps people out. There’s a lot of good out there!

–Mazda CX-5 Keyless Entry

–Kevo Bluetooth Door Lock

–Gyroscope Running

–UsTwo: Designing for Movement

–Ten Principles for Good Design

–Misa Kitara

–iON All-Star iPad Guitar

–Olympus Micro 4/3 Camera

–PowerPoint Auto-Spacing

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Andrew just got back from four weeks of traveling and a move and all he wants to do is sit down and watch some TV. But where can he find the first season of Veronica Mars? This week — we try to figure out how to fix TV (if it’s even broken at all).

–SlingTV

–R.I.P Aereo

–TV

–An interesting (French) proposal for a unified TV interface

–Planet Money episode on cable TV channels

–Cable Subscriptions Fall

–Why advertising is going to implode

–81.5 million Netflix subscribers

–YouTube Red

–Kids these days! (Just aren’t watching TV like their parents)

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