I just heard on the radio this morning that the excavators for the expanded London Underground are finding incredible artifacts while digging the new tunnels. Fascinating stuff!
A front end developer is someone that builds the interface. Designers are becoming programmers more and more nowadays, but it used to be that the designer drew out an interface and the developer built it.
I'm a big fan of Kim's concept work and read his blog regularly, as I think that his insight and designs are top notch.
That said, it'll be very interesting to see how his talent will be used. I wonder if it will just be industrial/hardware design or if he'll be designing UI's. I think that he's better suited for the former.
Technically you could just run a standard LAMP stack since it's running an ARM-compatible version of Ubuntu. It just won't take advantage of the multiple processors.
I think that this is a great idea and it kind of reminds me of http://usesold.com/ with an expanded scope. I'm constantly packing up things into bags for AMVETS, but having a box sent to me that automatically gets picked up would be awesome.
While I agree that you should validate your ideas before spending copious amounts of time programming, I don't think that you should sell people on an imaginary product. Unless you already have an established reputation, it's highly doubtful that people will pre-order something on mere talk alone.
I think that it's a better idea to stick with the MVP (minimum viable product) model and iterate rather than try to figure out revenue and customers right off the bat.
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/23/372623549/we-go-underground-to...