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Petra Söderling

I'm someone who likes to see a connection between technology, science, nature and a good life for all of us on this planet.

2010 is my 10th year at Nokia R&D. I continue to get energized by future research, user interface design, human-computer relations, augmented reality, nanosciences including wide use of nanotechnology, biomaterials, ubiqutous computing and many other exciting phenomena.

This topped with a humanist's approach, strong values in equality between those who have and those who have not.

More about me:
www.petras.mobi
www.nanovalo.net
www.mobilebrainbank.org

Moon is shrinking

You can't trust anything these days. Extreme weather conditions, changing flora and fauna, and now this: Moon is shrinking. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 8/20/2010 6:27 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Tweets from Pjongjang

North Korea has opened Twitter and YouTube accounts, and they have 185.000 subscribers to 3G mobile network. Wow. For a totally isolated nation, this is big news. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 8/20/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Turquoise is the new green

The Greens have lost their touch. I don't know any Green party in Europe with a clear political agenda for how to prevent soon 7 billion people from consuming the globe to death, or a plan to execute such agenda for that matter. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 8/15/2010 2:07 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction

What do you think about this? Stephen Hawking says that one way or another, the life on Earth will likely become uninhabitable for mankind in the future. We need to start seriously thinking about how we will free ourselves from the constraints of this dying planet. His proposal is to relocate to another planet. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 8/10/2010 5:37 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Solar powered airplanes

Electric airplanes have been in the development pipeline for some time, according to wikipedia even from 1970 or earlier. These funky looking clever machines took a step forward in becoming commercialized, as a manned, solar-powered plane flew 26 hours by using only solar power as energy.<< MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 7/28/2010 9:46 AM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

Mystery hole-punch cloud formation solved

It's nice to hear that humans are still solving some basic natural phenomena. We aren't as smart as we tend to think. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 6/21/2010 2:40 PM | View Comments (21) | Add Comment

Yey, I'm on BBC!

I've reported before how excited I've been about crowdfunding with Kiva and Grow VC. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 6/7/2010 7:33 PM | View Comments (17) | Add Comment

Making mobile work for social entrepreneurs

I met with Stephen Wolak from Vodafone and Betavine the other week in London. Betavine is an open community, run by Vodafone R&D, where developers can create applications, learn, and discuss developer related stuff. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 6/7/2010 7:03 PM | View Comments (16) | Add Comment

Bell Labs, Cheeky Monkeys and Viennese pizza

Again this year I was priviledged to be invited to the New Product Development Strategies conference. We are in Vienna as last year, before that the conference was two consecutive years in Amsterdam. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 6/7/2010 6:43 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

From London to Helsinki - on a bus

One of the most bizarre experiences in a long time. Being stranded in London for an additional week, due to volcanic ash in the airspace leading to all European planes being kept on ground. << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 4/28/2010 10:34 AM | View Comments (21) | Add Comment

MoMoLo

If you gotta be stranded somewhere, London isn't the worst place to be. In one week, I've been to three awesome networking events. After Mobile Brain Bank, TEDxVolcano, tonight was Mobile Monday London.<< MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 4/19/2010 5:36 PM | View Comments (26) | Add Comment

TEDxVolcano

I have never attended any of the TED events, but always wanted to. Now I got a unique chance to be part of an ad hoc exercise, when some of the TED crew were stranded in London, as I am. They threw together a special TEDxVolcano evening in 48 hours. << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 4/19/2010 5:16 PM | View Comments (16) | Add Comment

Mobile Brain Bank London

The second Mobile Brain Bank London synapse was on last week. I was extremely happy to see some old and new friends show up, and again a warm thanks to Grow VC for arranging refreshments. << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 4/19/2010 4:37 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks

Stranded by the Volcano

If this was a movie, there would be a lot of images of beautiful red and orange sunsets, slow motion scenes, and a magical out-of-place feeling. Certainly a romantic storyline. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 4/19/2010 4:14 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Hitlantis, the "Indie Spotify"

Hitlantis is a service for indie bands to distribute their music. They are on public beta (well, what else these days?), with a target to get 250 000 bands and 2,5 million users by end of this year. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 3/27/2010 10:51 AM | View Comments (27) | Add Comment

The Cloud that Tweets

This is cloud computing on steroids. A real "wow". A team of architects and engineers designed a monument for London's 2012 Olympics. It's a landmark structure that their press release calls "A cloud that Tweets". << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 3/27/2010 10:10 AM | View Comments (17) | Add Comment

Without the hot air

If I can find the time, this will be the next (non study-related) book that I read: David MacKay: Sustainable Energy - Without Hot Air. It is much praised for its accuracy and hard facts - so seems to be true to its sub-heading. It is also available as html files, or pdf download for free, so judge for yourself. << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 3/27/2010 9:11 AM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

Twestivals

I managed to volunteer Mobile Brain Bank (i.e. my personal input in the network) to co-arrange a Twestival. ... << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 3/17/2010 11:48 AM | View Comments (23) | Add Comment

Science publishing under Creative Commons

Scientific publications are very selective in choosing what to publish. For a scientist to get their article published in the most established science publications and journals is like winning in the lottery. Publishing your work is difficult, but when you succeed people know that you've written something worthwile.<< MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 3/16/2010 9:54 AM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Trippo translators

I try to find topics that are more in the science, or longer term R&D department rather than promote any product or service that's already in the market. The reason for that is that there are plenty of gadget sites for gadget fanboys and girls, but not enough attention is given to the large scale opportunites that having the world covered with mobile phones. << MORE >>

Posted by Petra S at 3/16/2010 8:03 AM | View Comments (13) | Add Comment

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