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eHealth trends

Henrik — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:08:38 +0000

I gave this short talk today at The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA. It was addressed to their excellent Mentor4Research program and their group of mentors and researchers. Here are my simple slides and speaker notes: E-health as a trend: 2 driving forces and 1 catalyst Driving force 1: Health care Health screening online for faster and better disease identification. Today: Feel symptom > Google > get worried > go to primary care > be referred to a specialist. Takes a long time! With a good screening service you get faster remittance to the right specialist Benefits: [...]

Quantified Self Stockholm meetup with Kevin Kelly

Henrik — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:59:34 +0000

Tomorrow I will go to Amsterdam to attend the second annual Quantified Self Europe conference. Quantified Self is a strange term that few understand, and I think it will stay that way. But I am convinced that the tools and services that are emerging from the QS movement will soon be integrated into our lives and taken for granted, not least in the health care sector. That’s why I enjoy attending events like this, it is a taste of the future! My feeling is that the QS movement is at the same stage as in the late 70s when Steve [...]

Form over function

Henrik — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:54:26 +0000

I often work with usability in online development projects, but I very often also notice counter-productive hardware design wherever I go. I can’t help wondering what the hardware designers were thinking of and if they ever tested it on humans before release? Example from my local gym: they just installed new sinks in the dressing rooms. The first thing I noticed was the beautiful new water tap with a bright red ring of lights on top: I then tried to fill my water bottle under this tap, for my upcoming spinning class. I started to look for how to [...]

LeWeb 2012 tidbits

Henrik — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:34:42 +0000

LeWeb 2012 I have just attended my third LeWeb internet conference in Paris, my two previous were in 2007 and 2008. I was lured back to LeWeb due to their theme for this year: “Internet of Things”, a rapidly growing sector that I think will affect our society and businesses just as much as the current Internet has done so far, and where I see many new business development possibilities. I am somewhat overwhelmed with impressions from my three intense days here, so this will only be some tidbits of what I found interesting and some feedback on the conference [...]

Wired

Henrik — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:29:32 +0000

The first issue of Wired magazine from 1993, now free on iPad I was very happy to see that Wired magazine has published its iconic inaugural issue on the iPad as a free download. I stumbled on the premiere issue at the Design museum in London, when I attended a HyperCard User Group meeting as a representative of my own company Ahead Multimedia AB. One of the organizers of this meeting was the TV journalist Max Whitby, who then run the Multimedia Corporation, a BBC company in London. Max had written an article in the premiere issue: “Is interactive dead?” (Check [...]

M2M for Health

Henrik — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:31:59 +0000

M2M is really taking off now after years of hype. But most user cases until now have been about logistics and monitoring devices. The goal of the seminar, as stated by the moderator Magnus Melander was to highlight many new types of uses for M2M solutions that exist today.

The Magazine is Dead, Long Live the Story!

Henrik — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:25:40 +0000

updated May 4, 2012 I’ve have been trying to read e-magazines on my iPads for two years now. It still does not work for me, which has surprised me, since I love my iPad and all other forms of digital media. I now think I know why1 I am a magazine lover I have subscribed to numerous magazines of all kinds ever since my childhood. I probably started with Donald Duck, moving to Reader’s Digest during my teens. During my university years I subscribed to a number of international magazines to keep my languages flowing, and ever since then I [...]

The future of ebooks is spelled Zlatan

Henrik — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:00:06 +0000

I confess: I have never been interested in football, never go to see games, don’t read sports news. But when the famous Swedish player Zlatan released his book I bought it since I felt that his life story was interesting. And indeed, I found his story captivating, especially his descriptions of all the drama on the field when he makes all these incredible goals. Since I have never seen Zlatan play on TV either, I immediately missed seeing pictures in the book. And the next thought was of course “Why is there no ebook version of this with pictures and [...]

Hövding – the invisible bike helmet

Henrik — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:17:35 +0000

Sometimes it is a bit hard to be an early adopter. But I like testing new things and I have a good track record for spotting successes and failures very early based on my first tests. I am using my bicycle every day, all year round in Stockholm and love it. So I was naturally intrigued when I read about the upcoming ”invisible bike helmet” Hövding a year ago. It is an airbag contained in a collar around your neck. It is activated by motion control sensors when you are falling off your bike and inflates all around your head, offering radically better [...]

Rethink the pricing of ebooks

Henrik — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:12:37 +0000

updated Sep 3, 2011 The big discussion around ebooks is usually: Should ebooks be cheaper than printed books? This is the wrong question! The pricing of printed books and ebooks: two fundamentally different ways to charge for content Buying an e-book cannot be compared to buying a printed book: You buy a paper book. Then you own it, it’s yours. You can give it away or sell it as you like. But you don’t buy an ebook, you license it. You don’t own the file that you paid for and downloaded. You cannot give it away and you can certainly not sell [...]