by George Tucker | Mar 4, 2015 | Insights, News
“It has a lot to do with beauty, with efficiency—the human being is in the middle of it all. Your hands, your eyes, your nose, your legs, your feet, your ass.” —Luigi Coani on Ergonomics.America has always cast a wistful eye toward European style and...
by George Tucker | Feb 24, 2015 | Insights, News
Aristotle postulated that nature abhors a vacuum.The Horror Vacui, as it is called, states that no space can be left unfilled, that the universe moves to occupy any ‘empty space.’ The show floor at Integrated Systems Europe seems to have taken this notion...
by George Tucker | Feb 12, 2015 | News
To paraphrase a famous movie, “I have one word for you. Infrastructure.”The Integrated Systems Europe trade show is beginning to wind down and from the perspective of a cross Atlantic interloper, we have been missing out. American tech shows tend to be...
by George Tucker | Feb 6, 2015 | Insights, News
It was not long before the sweets.Looked not at all like donut treats. They’d lost their taste, they’d lost their soul. They’d even lost their donut hole!—“The Donut Chef”“The Donut Chef,” by Bob Staake, is the story of two...
by George Tucker | Jan 26, 2015 | Insights
“Rock ‘n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.” —attributed to Frank Sinatra (via INS news service).Dear Ole’ Blue Eyes may have had the advantage of good looks and a mellow voice...
