Limor Fried, MIT graduate and founder of Adafruit Industries, has successfully combined personal fabrication, social messaging, and green electronics to create a device that monitors and publically reports energy consumption of appliances and electronics.
In his 2005 book “FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication” Neil Gershenfeld describes the future of engineering design as moving away from mass production to personal fabrication. According to Gershenfeld, driven by the desire for personalized products, people will begin modifying technology by adapting commercial products for unique personal applications.
A look at the Adafruit Industries Web site suggests the first wave of Gershenfeld’s personal fabrication future is already here.
Aren't all big ideas a byproduct of personal fabrication?
via DesignNews
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tweet-a-Watt
Thursday, April 02, 2009
€150k for mobile internet start-ups!
Vodafone are putting their money where their mouth is when is comes to mobile innovation, and are organising a competition in association with Mobile Monday London and MM Amsterdam to give away €150k to the best mobile internet start-ups.
Go here for more info
Go here for more info
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Back to mobile - MyFlyScreen.com
OK, so I digressed, back to mobile, the web, and the dots around me....
Que?
Myflyscreen - we've seen the concept before - the 'idle' home screen, but this one rocks, for (at least) one reason - it doesn't kill your battery life! Every single one I've tried in the last few years has left a Series 60 dead in a couple of hours. This one doesn't, and I've been testing it for over 2 months.
What, Who, Where & When?
Myflyscreen is a mobile start up out of Israel, founded last year, and funded by Yossi Vardi. It launched in private alpha last September at Techchrunch50 DemoPit.
Provisioning:
It installed and activated simply and easily on a test N95.
Behaviour:
I tend to keep my mobile next to my laptop during the day, a kind of technology sheep fence ideology (the blackberry (email) sits to the left, mobile (voice/sms) to the right - (that's worth another post on it's own)).
On an average day I work in 3 locations; home, office 1 and office 2. The light conditions, height and location vary. Consistently, in any location, Myflyscreen provides a VISIBLE up to the (20) minute news update on a set of RSS feeds, customised by me:
Description
In their own words, Cellogic put it very succinctly, "We have created FlyScreen, the first always-on, fully customizable mobile content portal. FlyScreen allows users to take content that they would normally need to open their browser to surf for, and have it surfed up to them, always available at a glance on the mobile screen".
Thoughts:
Given the right distribution, this could add a lot of value to any service experience that is currently suffering from being 'hidden', i.e. 2 ckicks away, tucked away in 'Applications' (where most Nokiaware ends up). Make it timely (@20 min), make it relevant, and make it not kill my battery!
Video:
Que?
Myflyscreen - we've seen the concept before - the 'idle' home screen, but this one rocks, for (at least) one reason - it doesn't kill your battery life! Every single one I've tried in the last few years has left a Series 60 dead in a couple of hours. This one doesn't, and I've been testing it for over 2 months.
What, Who, Where & When?
Myflyscreen is a mobile start up out of Israel, founded last year, and funded by Yossi Vardi. It launched in private alpha last September at Techchrunch50 DemoPit.
Provisioning:
It installed and activated simply and easily on a test N95.
Behaviour:
I tend to keep my mobile next to my laptop during the day, a kind of technology sheep fence ideology (the blackberry (email) sits to the left, mobile (voice/sms) to the right - (that's worth another post on it's own)).
On an average day I work in 3 locations; home, office 1 and office 2. The light conditions, height and location vary. Consistently, in any location, Myflyscreen provides a VISIBLE up to the (20) minute news update on a set of RSS feeds, customised by me:
Description
In their own words, Cellogic put it very succinctly, "We have created FlyScreen, the first always-on, fully customizable mobile content portal. FlyScreen allows users to take content that they would normally need to open their browser to surf for, and have it surfed up to them, always available at a glance on the mobile screen".
Thoughts:
Given the right distribution, this could add a lot of value to any service experience that is currently suffering from being 'hidden', i.e. 2 ckicks away, tucked away in 'Applications' (where most Nokiaware ends up). Make it timely (@20 min), make it relevant, and make it not kill my battery!
Video:
Friday, January 16, 2009
Friday, January 09, 2009
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Social marketing example - Whopper Sacrifice
Burger King have created an app for Facebook whereby if you delete 10 friends, you get a free whopper - your wall notifies everyone what you've done. Genius!
Download the app here
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Social Media Trends 09
the big ones for me are 'social search' and 'reducing noise'
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
The price of failure?
"Amazon sells almost $12 billion each year. A design change that doesn't go right, even for a day, could be worth millions of dollars to them".
UserInterfaceEngineering.com
UserInterfaceEngineering.com
Friday, November 07, 2008
PM v's UE (Part 1)
"General consensus on top issues: managers, non-managers, designers and non-designers all had highly similar scores".
Why designers fail: the report
Why designers fail: the report
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
"If you want to become the kind of person that any company would kill to have as an employee, you need to be the kind of employee that's really picky about who you align with".
Seth's Blog
Seth's Blog
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Monday, November 03, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
JOG - New Concept Gaming Ltd
Two of my ex-colleagues at Voda have created an awesome new product for gaming. The JOG product is an innovative in-game motion-sensing controller that measures the steps you take in the real world and translates them to movement on screen. Currently supporting the PlayStation, the unit promotes more active participation in gaming and encourages previously couched-potatoes to move about and get energised. A Wii version is coming soon...
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Push Facebook
A downloadable Facebook Push application from BlueWhaleMail, and in the vid, a nice example of Ambient Intimacy.
More here at ReadWriteWeb
BlueWhaleMail Interview with Michael Maguire - video powered by Metacafe
More here at ReadWriteWeb
BlueWhaleMail Interview with Michael Maguire - video powered by Metacafe
Monday, August 04, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Mobile Survival Kit
A number of mobile start-ups have teamed up to offer their services to 'revellers' (i've always wanted to use that word) heading off to muddy fields for tunes and camping at this years calendar of music festivals. The Mobile Survival Kit highlights 3 services that are extremely handy:
"Texperts has a team of music and festival experts on-hand 24/7 to help you with all those burning festival questions!
What is the name of the singer from the Ting Tings?
Where’s the nearest clean loo?"
"Mobyko enables you to backup your mobile online, so if you lose your mobile dancing in the mosh pit your life doesn’t go with it. Snap away at the festival and share your mobile photos and videos using the Mobyko gallery". (You could also use my photo-blogging service Snapzone for the last bit ;-)
"Zygo gives you and your posse your own group messaging service that makes staying in touch a cinch. When any of you sends one SMS to your Zygo group then we send it out to everyone else - instantly".
The MSK site is a really neat way to package and promote a set of services that address real customer needs.
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