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Planned addiction as a method of control: a parasitic lock-in business model

By Dan Lockton ⋅ September 1, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

The news that tobacco companies have increased the levels of nicotine in their brands over the last few years – especially those popular with certain groups – made me think further about architectures of control:
“The amount of nicotine in most cigarettes rose an average of almost 10 percent from 1998 to 2004, with brands [...]

Feature deletion for environmental reasons

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 27, 2006 ⋅ 6 comments

From the Sunday Times, ‘Standby buttons face axe to curb energy waste’:
“Ministers want to do away with the standby buttons that allow [users] to flick their TVs and other electronic gadgets on and off while moving barely a muscle…

High frequency wave files back up again

By Dan Lockton ⋅ May 31, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

They’re back up (well, the wave files anyway), thanks to the Internet Archive.

High frequency ringtone download

By Dan Lockton ⋅ May 25, 2006 ⋅ 54 comments

High frequencies being tested in the urban badlands: see, no teenagers here!
A lot of people find this site through searching for something along the lines of ‘Mosquito high frequency anti-teenager ringtone’, and are presumably disappointed when they find that there is no such ringtone to download, even if just because they’d like to test it [...]

The Anti-Sit Archives

By Dan Lockton ⋅ May 12, 2006 ⋅ 8 comments

Transfer has an amazing collection of images of ‘Anti-Sit’ devices, mostly in New York but also internationally.