On business travel (for women) I take anywhere between 40 and 70 flights a year. 90% of these are for work as I give talks around the world. Unlike George Clooney in Up in the Air, I’m a woman so packing is a completely different affair. It’s a niche expertise but I wanted to document how… Continue reading On business travel (for women)
Category: Internet of things
Men’s fashion in the City
Men’s fashion in the City In London, if you have even a passing interest in the sartorial you’ll find yourself with plenty to lust over. It’s not as good as my year spent in Milan in 2005–6 but much better than my uni years of Montreal winter wear and the abayas and kerkushas of my teenage… Continue reading Men’s fashion in the City
Making it!? (a writeup)
Making it!? (a writeup) Three months ago, Adrian McEwen and I were talking as we do about this and that. He’s been the co-founder of DoES Liverpool since 2011 and I started selling the Arduino in the UK in 2007. I never considered myself a maker but enabled others to become makers though my work running… Continue reading Making it!? (a writeup)
Rabbit holes & the convoluted history of modernism and home design.
Starting tomorrow I kick off the first leg of a little tour of places across Europe that have inspired me for my book on Smart Homes (which you should totally order by the way). I’ll be interviewing people along the way and recording it all for an upcoming podcast, so fear not if you hate… Continue reading Rabbit holes & the convoluted history of modernism and home design.
An extending process
An extending process In my book, I mention briefly the history of industrial design which I studied. It had never occurred to me to research the history of design education per se but this is fast becoming my newest obsession. I went up to Leeds last week and at the Henry Moore Institute, at the… Continue reading An extending process
Smarter Homes: how technology has changed your home life (an introduction)
Smarter Homes: how technology has changed your home life (an introduction) I’ve spent the last year writing a book on smart homes for Apress. It’s obviously not to get rich, but to explore some personal obsessions and share my findings in public. I’ve had the best time writing too, but I know that not everyone… Continue reading Smarter Homes: how technology has changed your home life (an introduction)
So you want to apply for government funding?
So you want to apply for government funding? Since closing Tinker London in late 2010 I’ve spent my time earning money through consultancy services and assessment work. I’ve been a technical and business assessor for funding bodies like Innovate UK, EIT Digital and Horizon 2020 projects. I’ve also been a partner on two government-funded projects.… Continue reading So you want to apply for government funding?
What I think about voice
Some thoughts on all this voice malarky. I mean, Google Duplex. Because apparently it’s the future of the smart home, and seeing as I’m writing a damn book about the topic here we go. (PS: pre-order the book for much much more). I think this’ll be useful for the talk I’m giving tomorrow at YLE… Continue reading What I think about voice
Intelligent for what?
Apologies to Drake for inelegantly stealing his line but I’m in Canada this week, speaking at the iX Symposium at the Société des Arts Technologiques and I’ve become very interested in the concepts of artificial intelligence and how mainstream the expression has become. The world of the internet of things in which I mostly operate has been… Continue reading Intelligent for what?
Let’s get together and call ourselves an institute: or how people coming together isn’t enough.
Let’s get together and call ourselves an institute: or how people coming together isn’t enough. I’m in the country side in Slovakia today. I took my 15th flight (this year) to get here. I will leave on Sunday. And there is no guarantee that I will ever see the people I will have met here again.… Continue reading Let’s get together and call ourselves an institute: or how people coming together isn’t enough.