During lunch I got a few minutes to try out Wolfram – the new language from the Wolfram Research team. In fact, the language was even already installed on my Raspberry Pi device, without me knowing. After updating the packages I typed in “wolfram” and was tossed into the language prompt. Looking online for a […]
I have been thinking about this question for a while now. In part it helps me re-focus my energy and enthusiasm, but it is really hard to articulate what it is that makes digital technology so special and why we should care. Humanity puts a lot of resources and efforts into pushing this development forwards,
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Toronto is a lovely city although somewhat colder than expected, even according to the locals. On the Sunday I attended the Sports Workshop together with my colleagues Stina and Jakob that also were the organizers. I presented parts of my work on studying running at night, minimalistic shoes and trail running through blogs. The group
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To share a few of the highlights since last time, we have among other things been working with sports stuff in our Bell Lab. The bracelet prototype is slowly coming together, although since new tech is already around the corner (Android Wear) it might be wise to keep the design process and sketches but put
Quite a few things are happening now when the new year has started. While I’m continuing working on aspects related to running and fringe sports throughout the spring, my new project within the material explorations track is called Revisit. In short the new projects seeks to go back a few years, to before the smartphone
Today it finally happened. On Friday I received the final document needed to submit the thesis to print. Today I went to the printing office and handed it in. Realized that I didn’t yet got an ISBN number but that solved itself eventually by emailing a bit back and forth. Back in Kista I had
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For the past few weeks we have slowly been trying to build a proper interaction design hardware lab-space. At the same time there has been an interesting test run of the formal procedure of applying for having a Ph.D defense. It involves things like suddenly collecting all course-work, writing a proper Ph.D plan (final one,
About the experience of giving blood. Well, since it was my first time it is of course a test run. But then I have no problem with either needles or the sight of blood so it seemed like a very good idea. Foremost, its just one small way of helping others and one of those