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Dreams of the techno-home

Homesense is ticking along nicely with Russell finishing up 2 projects this week while I was visiting this. There’s stuff there I hadn’t seen in the past 10 years of Milan Furniture Fairs. Projects and depth of thought people don’t put into their work anymore. A slowness about it I liked. I will make something… Continue reading Dreams of the techno-home

The French

Chasing the Future: a talk on emotional robots

Chasing the Future: challenges and opportunites in the design of emotional robots View more presentations from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino Look for the speakers notes for details. I’ll write a separate event report on RoboLIFT tomorrow.

On roundabout vs valley

2 things I jotted down during an event I spoke at 2 weeks ago. 1. Startups and VCs need to be near their customers. 2. VCs in the UK are like football season ticket holders, they always think they know best but have never actually tried playing professionally. Most VCs in the US in tech… Continue reading On roundabout vs valley

Tiles: Twitter as visual dictionary

(Warning: Firmly in the “things I don’t know how to build and can’t be bothered to learn how to” category.) I grew up flicking through the Dictionnaire Visuel on my mother’s bookshelf right next to that year’s Larousse Universel. It shaped my knowledge of words and the world beyond my bedroom in the 13ème. I… Continue reading Tiles: Twitter as visual dictionary

100 years

Happy International Women’s day

Curious Scarves: thoughts on the costs of making things

I’ve just launched Curious Scarves today and lots of people are commenting on the price. That’s good. People aren’t commenting on the idea. This is the second thing I make for sale. The first one was Topoware. I learnt that there are a few ways to go about making things for the world and have… Continue reading Curious Scarves: thoughts on the costs of making things

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