Petras dotmobi - Technology, science and nature in harmony
Best selling touch screen in Finland: Samsung's pink ribbon fighting breast cancer
You didn't see this one coming, did you. While us tech people think that people go crazy over this and that technological hype, purchase decisions are done by what really matters. ...
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Developing countries drowning in e-waste
This is shameful to us working in the electronic industry. Although some companies are behaving quite nicely and implementing take-back and recycling programs, the amount of abandonded electonic equipment is massive.
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Funding Squeeze Sends Finland’s Alcohol-Loving Rats to the US
Oh, the things recession forces us to do. Now Finland is starting to ship our alcoholics away. US, please take good care of our rats.
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Analog camera boom
This is interesting: All of Europe has run out of film. The beautiful snowy weather has made people want to take exceptionally much pictures this winter, not with their usual digital camera but with
their old analog film cameras. This again proves my "Nature 2.0" theory and "everything going to slow". ...
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Crowdfunding with Grow VC
I mentioned this in the previous entry, as a debrief of what was exciting at Mobile World Congress. Grow VC is a crowdfunding service. The idea is to collect enough money in small amounts, from
enough people, to be able to provide seed fund for starting mobile and web companies. ...
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MWC debrief
So this years Mobile World Congress week is over. Let's see what I thought was remarkable enough to stick with me all the way back to Finland, and to the weekend.<< MORE >>
Printed phonebooks (!)
I received a printed phone catalog in the mail, and felt like I'd been thrown back some 10 years or so. Why, oh, why would anyone print hundreds of thousands of paper books, distribute them to people
who will never open them, but load on their cars and hopefully bring to be recycle, and not to landfill.
The catalog weighed 1,684 kg. According to Conserveatree, which seems to be a reliable and much quoted source for these things, it takes 12 trees to make a ton of this quality paper. 12 ... << MORE >>
The catalog weighed 1,684 kg. According to Conserveatree, which seems to be a reliable and much quoted source for these things, it takes 12 trees to make a ton of this quality paper. 12 ... << MORE >>
Second coming of peddlers
I've entertained this idea that all of the good things we abandoned in the industrial revolution, is coming back. Tall ships, bicycles, slow food, local produce, passive housing, living partly in
caves, water and wind energy etc. It's becoming like Spinning-Jenny never existed. One addition to the list is peddlers. << MORE >>
Nuclear threats and opportunities
Influental men and women (and hopefully not just Ms. Merkel alone) in the Munich Security Conference are worried about nuclear power, and what it can do in wrong hands. Whose hands are the right hands, and whose hands are the wrong hands, is of cours a matter of opinion. "The general opinion" is that an issue so dangerous should be agreed together with everyone involved. Easy to say...<< MORE >>
Battle of the giants (Who's Who)
I'm not one of those "the bigger the better" type of people. "Less is more" is a more accurate description of how I see the world. However, recently the "facts over hype" side of me is gaining
strength. You know what I'm talking about. Mr. Jobs claiming that Apple is the "largest mobile device company in the world". ...
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Slime mold doing network engineering - HUH?
This is supercool! One of the most 'wow' things I've seen in a long time.
Researchers from Japan and England used yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum to remodel the railway network on Tokyo's map. They used oat flakes to represent cities around Tokyo, and the slime grew a network of threads that model the rail system almost identically. ... ... << MORE >>
Researchers from Japan and England used yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum to remodel the railway network on Tokyo's map. They used oat flakes to represent cities around Tokyo, and the slime grew a network of threads that model the rail system almost identically. ... ... << MORE >>
Kiva loans
Admitted my first Kiva loan to a Cambodian village vegetable company. Kiva is a microloan service that works a social network. Local field
partners look for funding targets, such as small village shops or agricultural enterprises run by women. The targets are then advertised on Kiva's website, and anyone can lend a small amount of
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Mobile Brain Bank's facelift
Mobile Brain Bank is evolving. The original story on how it got started is stored here, so I won't repeat
it. The three main buckets that I envisioned back then remain:
- exhange of entrepreneurial ideas
- networking opportunity for job seekers and providers
- a think tank and problem solving community ... ... << MORE >>
- exhange of entrepreneurial ideas
- networking opportunity for job seekers and providers
- a think tank and problem solving community ... ... << MORE >>
Welcome to Finland, Google III
Google is setting up a server farm in an old paper mill in the city of Hamina, Finland. I've been writing about the story since February when the rumors first came out, with a follow-up in March as Google themselves announced their intention. At that time Google was very secretive about their plans, but
last week they arranged a walk-tour for Finnish media in the factory halls.
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"Petra wants her own planet"
If your name is Petra, you are bound to stop when you see this kind of a headline in newspaper. The subtitle "Web based Petra game combines ideology with business" was even more interesting. << MORE >>
Top Innovations 2009
A year ago I listed some favorite top innovations from 2008. They included a global seed vault, retail DNA test kit, and of course the LHC particle accelerator at Cern which was switched on during that year.
This year the science magazines again treat us to an insight of what took place during 2009. << MORE >>
Does mobile phone improve equality?
This is a question to be answered by Laura Stark, a professor in the Jyväskylä University, Finland. She has received 450,000 euros for a four year research project that wil take her to Camroon,
Kenya, Tansania, South-Africa, Ghana, Bangladesh and India. AǬĈ띈ƉᚐƉƓ ...
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NSN goes into energy
A problem common to mobile operators in areas with poor infrastructure is the availability of energy. The power grid may not exist at all, or the electricity feed may not be consistent. Nokia Siemens Networks has developed a lot of know-how and products to support the mobile operators in managing, measuring and billing networks under difficult conditions. << MORE >>
Bookabooka rent case
I've written about trade marks, patents and copyright, and usually I've been on the creator's side. I have opposed the Pirate Party's objectives, for example, because I think that the right to protect your creation or invention from commercial exploitation, is a value that drives new creativity. If I had to choose between creating new, or circulating old, I choose the new.<< MORE >>
Transhumans H+
Thanks to the poor digital TV reception at my house, I can often only see the Finnish national broadcasting company YLE channels. I've very much grown to like YLE Teema, that advertises to be the alternative option. That they are, and thank you for being just that. Tonight, I watched a documentary on gene manipulation, "helped evolution" and transhumannists.<< MORE >>
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