Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Guitar Shred Show

I have just idled away far too much time playing with the Guitar Shred Show. Very amusing animation, nicely woven into a story and the most rockingly rock …

Smart lightbulb sends SMS when blown

So now Fujitsu have developed a lightbulb that sends you a text message when it’s blown. Aparently it does this via some kind of code in the bulb that …

Why no research here?

Okay, so everyone seems to have been asking me why none of my work or research is published here. I wish I could say it’s because it’s so super …

Playing Superman

So, did my second skydive today and it was even better than the one a few years ago. This time I actually remember the first ten seconds - check out the vein on …

WEARHEAD*PHONE from Hulger

] Another great piece of headgear thinking from my mate Nik Roope at Hulger. the WEARHEAD*PHONES are part of a show called Hearwear at the Victoria & Albert …

Nice Viral Big Ad Campaign for Carlton Beer

Continuing a very amusing trend for sending up crap advertising, Carlton Beer just released this Big Ad campaign. Visual effects by my old-flame (geddit?) …

Comment problems

There seems to be some problem with comments on my blog. Some people manage it whilst others never get posted. They all go through an approval process as I was …

Optimus OLED keyboard - smart object of desire

Ah, good product design, I love it when it’s done so well. This OLED keyboard, the Optimus, from Russian design house Art. Lebedev Studio is a brilliant …

London Bombs

Phew. What a weird 48 hours that was. As far as I know everyone I know is okay, though I have many friends in London that I haven’t heard from, so I hope …

Google Scholar increases book sales

I work at a University as most of you will know and the issue of “Google culture” amongst students when researching comes up all the time. So …