Sunday, September 06, 2009

Aalto University Design Factory Review

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Aalto University Design Factory from Oriol Pascual on Vimeo.

During my visit to Finland, I had the chance to visit the Design Factory from Aalto University; a passion-based co-creation platform. There, students, researchers, and entrepreneurs work together to create design solutions taking a user-centered approach.

The place is just great. A mix of energetic and curious people on a context that provides all required tools for making things happen. I'd recommend you to check this post from Niti Bhan on her impressions on working at Design Factory .

I spent an afternoon with two of the people powering the Design Factory machinery; Jussi Hannula (project manager) and Esa Santamäki (Spatial Designer). In this video they tell us what is Design Factory, about their roles, the people working there, and were is Design Factory going.

In a previous post, we spoke with one of the startups at Design Factory; PowerKiss.



Friday, August 28, 2009

Aalto's Design Factory Startups: PowerKiss (wireless charging solutions)

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Aalto's Design Factory Startups: PowerKiss (wireless charging solutions)

During my visit to Finland, I had the chance to visit the Design Factory from Aalto University ; a passion-based co-creation platform. There, students, researchers, and entrepreneurs work together to create design solutions taking a user-centered approach.

One of the startups hosted at the Design Factory is PowerKiss, a company that uses induction technology integrated into forniture to charge mobile devices like cellphones and laptops. As Maija Itkonen (founder) explains in this video, PowerKiss is already taking orders for their products and commercialization is expected to start in two months time.

I personally love the concept; imagine being at home or at a cafe and by simply positioning your cellphone or laptop on the desk, it gets charged. Great! Moreover, with the adoption of micro-usb as standard charging plug in cellphones, the possibilites expand beyond charging, including transmission of data. In this case, hyper-local data; a single table can transmit different data depending in which part of the surface you are positioning your device.

It's time to get rid of the spaghetti cable!

PowerKiss
PowerKiss on Threehugger
Aalto University Design Factory

Monday, June 22, 2009

Test - audio post from cellphone

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Text message sent from Note Everything app (Android, free) to Utterli via

the email option. Would it publish the subject line, this text body, & audio

file properly?

Mobile post sent by Oriol using Utterlireply-count Replies.

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Interview on the Future of Energy (Lift09)

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During this past Lift Conference, the people of WattWatt (The IEC's Electro Community Website) made a short interview on the future of energy & sustainability. Here, I give my view on what we can expect from energy production and consumption. Descentralized energy production, as proposed by Qurrent seems to be the way to go.


Sunday, April 26, 2009

Adding Audio Messages to your Blog

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I'd like to explore audio as a format to distribute content, specially short thoughts. How did I set this? From Utterli desktop app, to Twitter, Oriol.tv, & OriolPascual.com (StoryTlr)

Mobile post sent by oriolpascual using Utterlireply-count Replies.  mp3

Friday, February 13, 2009

Enviu Update; February 09

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A review of the projects and activities that keep busy the people at Enviu; the Dutch network organization developing business solutions for the major sustainability issues.

In this episode
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