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The eco-vacs are coming

Roger and I headed to IFA on Friday to share the latest result of our Ecovation process, Stem – our concept for reducing the impact vacuums have on the environment by 27% and reducing the energy used by 43%.  We had some really good meetings with a number of the big manufacturers, so it was a [...]

Google Health and PowerMeter are closing – 5 reasons this may not be a coincidence

Last friday Google announced that it is withdrawing two of its services – Google Health and Google PowerMeter. It’s no coincidence that these two have been announced at the same time….

From Caffè Culture 2011

Yesterday Edd and myself visited the Caffe Culture show in London.  It’s the largest coffee show in the UK and has a good variety of stands in everything from roasting equipment and espresso machines through to small foods suppliers and ancillary support companies. It’s good to see coffee machine innovation continuing.  In the espresso machines [...]

UMI and Smart Meters at Metering and Billing 2010

Last week in Vienna saw the major European conference on Smart Metering. Our colleague Alistair Morfey presented UMI – Universal Metering Interface on Wednesday 22nd September in the afternoon session on Standardisation and Interoperability. You may be thinking why is metering so important to consumers – meters are those ugly grey boxes which are buried [...]

IFA 2010 Saturday – The eco-innovations keep coming…Philips speak

More news from Philips today about their commitments to the sustainability agenda.  Philips really are at the vanguard of green consumer product development, having been working to reduce eco-impact for around 20 years.  Philips have been our client for a number of years, and have heavily influenced our own eco-design processes (e.g. Leapfrogging which we’re [...]

IFA 2010 Friday – Anyone for green, 3D coffee?

First day of IFA today, and we seem to be on-trend with Kevin the frog peering out from our stand. He is promoting our Leapfrogging – Radical Eco-innovation process and seems very at home, with the smart home hall next door, and Philips, LG, Sharp, Samsung, Miele and Bosch Siemens all making announcements about their green eco-design initiatives today.

Blue is the new gold

Once upon a time an innovative product known as a goldpan led to the phenomenon known as the goldrush. Then black became the new gold (black being the colour of oil) and now I think gold is about to be re-branded once more, this time in blue, the colour of water. This will prompt a new goldrush,…