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::: nBlog ::: Yesterday I, together with our chief engineer and chief architect were listening to a full-blown presentation about the German Industrie 4.0 initiative. Our

::: nBlog ::: During the last five years, I’ve been able to increase the energy (and financial) efficiency of our home buildings by more than 40 percent.

::: nBlog ::: Japan seems to be a land of vending machines. One runs into arrays of them in restaurants, barber shops, subway stations, grocery stores,

::: nBlog ::: When vendors plan new products and services, it is often forgotten or neglected that the strongest buying influencer is universally the buyer’s identity. This

::: nBlog ::: Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk announced yesterday that they’ll make all their patents available to others, to be utilized “for good purposes”. More specifically, Tesla

::: nBlog ::: After spending a couple of busy days in an Internet-of-Things conference, presenting and participating in panels, I couldn’t help thinking of redefining

::: nBlog ::: The Internet of Things is often confined to lifeless physicality, which greatly reduces its conceivable applications. Things, anyway, rarely used to have

::: nBlog ::: Most businesses today operate in a fire-and-forget mode. As soon as the product is sold, it becomes a mere liability for the duration

::: nBlog ::: While walking with our chief architect in Zurich a few weeks back, we spotted a local garrison with a lot of barbed

::: nBlog ::: As I live 51.2 kilometers west from our office in Helsinki, I usually spend the 42 minute commute on the phone (my handsfree set