Revenue Dimensions

The 01 Lab

Serious questions. Unreasonable prototypes. Useful ideas.

The premise

Make the invisible assumption visible.

The 01 Lab is where persistent frustrations become speculative systems. Each project begins with an ordinary experience that does not work as well as we have learned to pretend it does.

I examine the outcome people actually need, identify the assumption the category has inherited, and make an alternative visible—often by taking it several steps beyond what good judgment would ordinarily permit.

These are not product announcements or construction plans. They are provocations: coherent enough to reveal something useful, exaggerated enough to make the underlying question difficult to ignore.

Current investigations

Ideas taken seriously enough to become strange.

A protected operator uses CONTACT / 01, a speculative vacuum with an exposed Turkish-towel rotor

Investigation 01 · Contact

CONTACT / 01

What if a vacuum complemented suction with physical contact—and what does the ridiculous answer reveal about the problem?

Explore CONTACT / 01 →
A child and her father attend a virtual medical appointment while their small self-view remains visible on screen

Investigation 02 · Presence

PRESENCE / 01

What if video meetings replaced the persistent mirror with a brief preflight check, quiet reassurance, and a private signal only when something changes?

Explore PRESENCE / 01 →
A hand lowers a metal laptop quietly onto a shared office table using the open-ended underside landing slide

Investigation 03 · Landing

LANDING / 01

What if the underside of a heavy laptop gave fingertips a smooth exit path—so the final inch of every landing could be controlled instead of surrendered to gravity?

Explore LANDING / 01 →

The method

Question the mechanism—not merely its performance.

01 · Notice

Start with a recurring disappointment people have learned to accept.

02 · Exaggerate

Make an alternative concrete enough that its opportunity and tradeoffs become visible.

03 · Recover

Keep the useful principle, restore judgment, and ask the better next question.