Over the last couple of years I have acquired a taste (8.2 kilos/ year) for a nice cup of morning coffee. Basically you need good coffee beans that are freshly grinded and then brewed with a controlled temperature, time and pressure. I asked internet and friends for the most functional “tools” for achieving the perfect cup until I individually acquired the [...]

  Taking on CES on a small budget you’ll need two things: guts and creativity. This year Per and Martin of People People were sent out to one of the largest electronics fair on the planet. The mission: Show the People People Speaker to the public and find the right partners to go into production, [...]

We have been getting great feedback for our speaker and we are very happy to announce that we will be showcasing a prototype at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. We are part of Wired Magazines 15-favorite-products-show at the cool surrender club at Encore hotel (close to the convention center). Here is Per packaging the [...]

Few people would pay to get advertisements, in fact we pay to get rid of them. But a great deal of people would pay to get recommendations. Both are here partly to improve our lives by helping us find what we really need. I think advertisement might have one or two things to learn from [...]

I had a chat with a friend and advisor Johan Ronnestam the other day and our discussion brought up this dear topic of discussion.   “A good way to awake peoples emotions is to be rational”   It might sound like a contradiction but here are two examples on why rational sense making is a great [...]

Martin Willers lectures on the Executive Design Management course at Berghs School of Communication in Sweden. The course sets out to answer some key questions:   Today, when 46% of the resources that companies devote to conceptualize, develop and launch new products go to projects that do not succeed:   How can organization use design [...]

  Nowadays people are looking for The Real Thing. We want genuine and robust stuff that last forever, or at least looks like they already have. On this very day of writing we have 1076 items on sale named “Shabby Chic” at the Swedish online sales market Blocket. They are everywhere these constructed antiques, the [...]

Current problems for people There’s a war going on in the living rooms of the world – the never ending battle between home electronics and interior design. It might be the huge TV that really doesn’t work with the nice old cupboard, or maybe the heaps of cables that for some reason needs to connect [...]

According to the swedish magazine Ny Teknik these companies - Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Xpand 3D, Changhong Electric, Funai Electric, Hisense Electric, Hitachi Consumer Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Philips, Seiko Epson, Sharp, SIM2 Multimedia, TCL Corp, Toshiba and View Sonic – are joining forces to standardise the technology around 3D-goggles. They are facing a huge opportunity and a massive [...]

Photo: Emmy Jonsson   People People has been supporting a 48 hour open innovation challenge where groups gather around the world to come up with new sustainable solutions together with people they never met before. We strongly believe in the Jams vision that creative people working actively together is the solution to many of our [...]