Monthly Archives: June 2009
Two is not enough
One of the mantra’s of (telecom) competition authorities is that competition will lower prices and improve services. Some economists (like the chief of the CPB (Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis) Coen Teulings) believe that “2 is enough” to create adequate … Continue reading
Steam punk
Text messaging used to be done by sending morse-code signals. Terribly outdated, but surprisingly fast and efficient. See this contest between text-messaging by phone versus morse code. Morse Code-Leno – Click here for more home videos
The Cost of Clean Energy
The proverb “where the rubber meets the road” points to the reality check one has to do with any concept: what will be the cost? Altenergystocks has an interesting post on this subject: the available numbers (USA), the sensitivity for interest … Continue reading
Lumeneo
Is it a car, is it a motorcycle? Nowadays you see more and more hybrid designs, with 3 and 4 wheels. Like the Piaggio MP3, the Carver, the T-rex, the Aptera and many others (see a list of 3 wheelers … Continue reading
Howcast – HowTo video’s
I just learned of a great site. Both useful and fun to watch. Howcast, around 100,000 video’s of HowTo stuff. Ranging from How To Tie a Tie to How To Reform a Spoiled Brat to the brilliant How To Survice a Bear … Continue reading
Obvious
One of our favorite bloggers (James Enck) points to a telling graph in a presentation by Kenneth Karlberg of TeliaSonera. Iphone users outgun everybody else by a big margin in data traffic. A BIG margin.
Electric car sharing
Streetcar, the UK’s largest pay-as-you-go-car-sharing-club, has announced that it will offer members a specially adapted Toyota Prius. It can be expected that this is a success, since members of a car-sharing-club in general care about the environment. While a trial … Continue reading
Smart use of technology
I like really smart implementations of technology. Marjolein just demonstrated the Pulse smartpen from Livescribe to us. A pen with an integrated voice recorder. The really clever bit is the combination of the camera in the tip and the … Continue reading
How traffic jams are created out of thin air
A nice Youtube movie showing the effects of drivers interacting in a stream of cars on the highway. Only a minor perturbation will ripple through the system and create shockwaves. A fine demonstration of emergent behaviour in complex systems.
The power of connectivity
It is amazing to follow the smart use of Twitter and its API’s, Facebook en Flickr by protesting Iranians today. Bypassing the blockade of professionals journalists, using the tools the Chinese protesters did not have 10 years ago. See for … Continue reading