Posted in Enigmatic Names, Phrase Names, Product Names on May 9th, 2008 2 Comments »
Sometimes it takes a crazy kind of name to snap a name inspector out of a long dry spell. Verb for Shoe is just that kind of name. It belongs to a computerized, interactive shoe created by MIT-spinoff VectraSense Technologies. Apparently this shoe detects different activities of its wearer and inflates and deflates cushions in […]
Posted in Good Names, Metaphor, Metonymy, Names, Product Names, Real Word Names, Schematic Names, Sound Symbolism on June 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
Microsoft recently unveiled Surface, a tabletop computer with an amazing multi-touch interface. There’s no keyboard or mouse–you interact with Surface through its display, which is touch-sensitive and can respond to simultaneous touches from multiple fingers or people. That means you can “grab” objects and move them around, re-size photos by stretching them out with your […]
