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)
Sunday Scraps #2
Tabs from May 2018 Jardins Ferdinand Bac / How to call into the kitchen / NSBRC Self-build course / The Empty Brain / Usbourne book of the future / Laguna Art Museum / MOCA: Wellcome to the Dollhouse / The Waag Vertigo Residencies / Couple fined for using fake garage door to hide home /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #2
Cities that make
I spent a couple of days in Liverpool this week, catching up with Adrian McEwen, an old friend, author, technical #iot consultant and founder of what I consider to be one of the most embedded and sustainable maker spaces in the North: DoES Liverpool. We talked a lot about what’s happening in his city and… Continue reading Cities that make
Sunday Scraps #1
I’ve handed in my book‘s manuscript to my editor so I’m having a bit of a mental clear-out. A year ago, when I started writing, I would write down in my Moleskines the unopened tabs on my phone to ‘come back to them later’. Pah! One of my favorite places on the internet is the… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #1
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.
How to work with Londoners: a guide for foreigners.
How to work with Londoners: a guide for foreigners. So we’re a year away from Brexit and although I fear many will leave, many others (read: Americans) will come here in search of a friendlier healthcare system and English-speaking opportunities. Here is a guide to how to work with Londoners to prepare you before you… Continue reading How to work with Londoners: a guide for foreigners.
The Value of Design
There’s a new book out called Design and the Creation of Value which at an eye watering £85 probably isn’t going to make it on to my reading list straight away but the review illustrates a point I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. “Moral or ethical value seems to have limited relation to design.” writes John… Continue reading The Value of Design