Category: innovation

Spotify makes CDs feel like 78 rpm records

Brows­ing through the online pages of my favourite Swedish news­pa­per Sven­ska Dag­bladet I came across an arti­cle (cit­ing this arti­cle that appeared in Forbes a few days ago) call­ing Spo­tify founder/entrepreneur Daniel Ek the most impor­tant man in music at the moment. I went on to read the much more exten­sive Forbes arti­cle with great […]

Tuesday January 10th, 2012 in innovation, Music, technology | 1 Comment »

Allt tyder på att e-cat:en inte fungerar

Ny tekniks artik­lar om Andrea Rossis energikatalysaor, eller “e-cat” som den kallas, som pub­licer­ades under våren verkade lovande. Det verkade som om Rossi, en ital­iensk uppfinnare, vid upprepade tillfällen kunde demon­str­era lyck­ade rep­lik­eringar där energikatalysatorn gener­erade mer energi än vad som tillfördes. Detta sades ske genom någon form av kall fusion eller någon annan form […]

Sunday December 18th, 2011 in Energy, innovation | No Comments »

Exploring Objective-C programming

I used to do a lot of pro­gram­ming. As a young teenager I was the lucky owner of a Com­modore C64 doing my best to pro­gram mov­ing starfields and Urid­ium clones in assem­bler. Much later, dur­ing one stage of my career I was heav­ily involved in train traf­fic sim­u­la­tor devel­op­ment. This meant get­ting fairly proficient […]

En kommentar rörande Rossis “manick”

Aktiebloggen Red­eye cit­erar mitt inlägg om Andrea Rossis energikatalysator och jag vill där­för för­ty­dliga att jag inte häv­dar att Rossis appa­rat fungerar. Ingen ny infor­ma­tion av avgörande bety­delse har så vitt jag vet framkom­mit, alltså gäller fort­farande att vänta och se.

Tuesday August 2nd, 2011 in Energy, innovation, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Tänk om Andrea Rossis energikatalysator verkligen fungerar?

För något år sedan skrev jag om spän­nande nya forskn­ing­spro­jekt inom fis­sion, lik­som om bety­delse­fulla fram­steg inom kon­ven­tionell fusions­forskn­ing (här och här). Nu har något nytt och ovän­tat inträf­fat: så kallad “kall fusion”, eller en likvärdig process, kan eventuellt ha förverk­li­gats. Det innebär i så fall inget min­dre än en sen­sa­tion och bör­jan på en […]

Google’s 20 percent innovation time policy

From time to time I’ve read about com­pa­nies that pro­vide their employ­ees with some frac­tion of their paid work­ing time to do what they want. That is, to work on and elab­o­rate any of their own ideas that they like as long as they fall rea­son­ably within the company’s field of busi­ness. The most famous […]

Wednesday August 25th, 2010 in innovation, Product development | 1 Comment »

Method for collecting leaking oil at Deepwater Horizon

How can the oil leak from the well below the col­lapsed Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon plat­form be stopped? Despite all efforts BP has so far failed to stop the leak, which may now be up to 100000 bar­rels per day, a dis­as­ter of unpreceded pro­por­tions. An attempt to place a steel cone on top of the well failed. […]

Monday June 21st, 2010 in innovation, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Technological and service innovation

I feel that I should make a note about yes­ter­days post where I dis­cussed the impor­tance of tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion for indus­try. Com­mer­cial­iz­able inno­va­tion is of course not lim­ited to tech­nol­ogy. Tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion is often an enabler for ser­vice inno­va­tion. New tech­nol­ogy trans­form the soci­ety in terms of infra­struc­ture and the way we inter­act with each […]

Sunday June 20th, 2010 in innovation | 1 Comment »

CD production a future for the record store?">On–demand CD production a future for the record store?

More and more peo­ple down­load their music on the inter­net, and record stores are hav­ing a hard time. How come I’ve never heard any­one talk about on–demand CD pro­duc­tion in the stores? The rapid decline in the num­ber of record stores was dis­cussed in a pro­gram on Swedish Radio P2 a cou­ple of hours ago. […]

Process cost modelling in steel industries: Flexibility, flow and production cost

I’ve writ­ten about how process flex­i­bil­ity and small batch sizes improve pro­duc­tion flow in steel indus­tries in a cou­ple of ear­lier posts (here and here). In this post I’ll dis­cuss how the eco­nom­i­cal con­se­quences of flex­i­ble rolling mill tech­nol­ogy can be stud­ied using a con­cep­tual process cost model. The fig­ure below illus­trates a con­cep­tual cost model […]