Notes: Processing and Plotting with the Summit Community

Three days of post-election deep immersion

Like many of us, I began the day on Wednesday 9 November exhausted, angry and confused. It was an early morning because we hadn’t slept well and it was an early morning because Evan and I were catching a flight to Miami to get on the ship for Summit at Sea. We considered canceling, but decided to go. We boarded the NCL Escape—an apt name …

Matrix’s Body-Heat-Powered Smartwatch, PowerWatch

An advanced activity-tracker requiring no charging ever

One of the biggest challenges to activity- and sleep-tracking gadgets happens to be the disruption caused by charging. While battery life has improved for certain devices, anyone looking for a solid, entire day read loses accuracy for those power-up minutes. With the PowerWatch, which is at 185% of its Indiegogo goal at time of publish, the wearer’s body heat charges the versatile device while it’s …

Interview: Artist Narinder Sagoo

An architect at Foster + Partners by day captures human moments on his morning commute

Narinder Sagoo has worked at Foster + Partners for 20 years as an architectural illustrator. His hand drawing skills are incredible—he renders rich, precise scenes that bear emotion and story all without backtracking, erasing or changing course. Even more remarkable, the order in which he draws these scenes is part of the story telling itself. Watching him work is mesmerizing. Sagoo recently switched from drawing …