Amazon’s Platform for Products
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about platforms – platforms on the internet. They form the basis of many prominent and successful internet service. When you can create a successful platform, it...
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3D Printing Over Its Top?
IN AUGUST Gartner released their yearly report called Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. 3D printing is part of this report for the last couple of years. This year Gartner’s analysts have positioned...
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No 3D Printer For You :)
MOST MEDIA ATTENTION in 3D printing currently goes to home 3D printers. MakerBot just released their new Replicator 2 3D printer and opened a MakerBot retail store in New York. A year ago, they...
View ArticleOnline 3D Printing Services Should Watch Out!
THE RISE OF HOME 3D printers should make the 3D online printing services somewhat nervous. Especially when you look at the quality of new products like Form-1 – although not yet on the market. In an...
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Mono Culture of 3D Printing
TODAY I came across a couple of renderings on Behance called No Limit, which are an artist impression on how the future of 3D printing could look like. Below is one of the pictures. What struck me in...
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Can Supply Chain Made Simpler With On-Demand Manufacturing?
ONE OF THE CHALLENGES for launching products by individual designers and small firms is to setup and manage their supply chain. In my post So You Have A Great Product Idea, What’s Next?, I wrote about...
View Article2012 Wrap Up!
LIKE LAST YEAR I have made a list of the most popular posts on my blog. This year’s list is a bit different than last year’s. Last year’s list contained more technical posts while this year’s popular...
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Personalization Is More Customization
ONE OF THE MOST touted use case for 3D printing is personalization. Now personalization can mean many things and you see different executions of the personalization vision on the internet. For example...
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Manufacture. Use. Recycle. Repeat.
JUST IMAGINE an apartment, an apartment without any cabinets, closets or any other furniture to store things. The only things in the apartment are the things you use every day. Things like a couch, a...
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Smart Factories
ONE OF THE HUGE OPPORTUNITIES for 3D printing and on-demand manufacturing is the ability to produce in series of one. To me that statement embodies the enormity of the impact of 3D printing on the...
View ArticleA second brain
I am a simpleton with regard to productivity software. I just use notes and documents. I have tried many smart todo lists apps, CRMs, and fancy note-taking apps, but I always stay with plain note...
View ArticleRetro gaming: Doom 3
Not as retro as usual on my Saturday posts, Doom 3 is almost 15 years old. It was released in August 2004 on Windows/PC. I used to play this on the Xbox 360 back in the day. Doom 3 is not a sequel but...
View ArticlePaper Mario Bros
I came across this video (h/t The Verge) of a hand-drawn stop motion video of the first level of Super Mario Bros. It is cute, fun and so well done: He describes himself as: I make stop motion...
View ArticleTake people on a journey
There has been written a lot about Amazon’s HQ2 contest and their decision to go to New York and then pulling out again. I think it has been analyzed from every angle. The arguments from both sides...
View ArticleCulture starts at the top
I hear myself repeating this a lot lately so I’ll make my life easier to write it up in a post. If you are unhappy about the culture in a company, change can only come from the top. A team lead can...
View ArticleDealing with life
When you are doing something hard or dealing with major life events, you are trying to get through it. Often it feels impossible or insurmountable. But when you are on the other side, you often forget....
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Yesterday, I remarked that is funny how the brain works. I am that person who judges when I go to a hotel and the alarm clock next to the bed is off. Usually, because they suffered a power outage or we...
View ArticleTop 15 global brands ranking from 2000 to 2018
The video below (via @freakonometrics) shows rankings of the top 15 global brands over the years. It is super interesting to watch the rise of the internet companies to the top and the fall of...
View ArticleRetro gaming: Lemmings
I think this was one of the earliest puzzle games I played on my PC. It is one of those games you can play for hours to get that past that one level. Lemmings did not have the best graphics or sound,...
View Article50,000 photos of the moon
Two weeks ago, I posted the far side of the moon selfie taken from the Longjiang-2 satellite. This week, I came across another moon shot – this time taken from earth. Andrew McCarthy created the photo...
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