Today I went to the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm and saw that they have a special exhibition about plastic. I can really recommend it, especially with the audio guides that you get for free. There are many plastic kitchen utensils on display and lots of audio guide points where you get very good information about [...]

The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing.  It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half.  It has quite a magical effect.

Will you be designing “for everyone” or “for everyone”. Let me clarify: Will you continue seeing your neighbours as your customers and target market or will they start designing specifically for them? Cloudfab and 100Kgarages think there will be more of the latter. As with the concept of Marcos Costa, it seems very well that [...]

I am a sucker for analog. Especially tangible analog. got this from Gizmag. here’s a video: and here are some more niceties: and one of my favorite analog technologies (of the modern day) is a crystal radio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio

Came across this one in a popular science magazine: it’s a dishwasher concept from the french appliance manufacturer de Dietrich, using ultrasound to clean the dishes. You can go here to read more about it.

Soon it is time to apply for summer internships. Anyone done their portfolio yet? :) Here´s a good tip on designing effective portfolio: www.underconsideration.com/flaunt

Here’s a site that might be useful: www.mindtools.com The page has lots of tools and methods for coming up with ideas, solving problems, making decitions etc. There’s even a chapter on how to manage stress! :-)

I just came across this website that I didn’t know about so far: http://www.howstuffworks.com/ It has some pretty good articles, to give you a basic idea about all kind of things that you research about. Might be a good addition to wikipedia to get a quick overview.

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