Thomas Broen

Space saving furniture & Interior design

Have a look at these furniture solutions. Quite interesting if you’re low on space in your home or appartment - or if you just want to fit more into less space.

Cool to see so many thought-through details, where different parts have different functionalities in different situations.

I just stumbled upon this interesting blog about psychology and how the human mind works… I bet there’s plenty of hours worth of interesting reading material.

A small observation and a constant irritation. It might seem like a small thing, but when I buy 1000g of yogurt I expect to be able to eat my 1000g of yogurt without the use of a knife and a chisel.

In this case I even took it a bit longer, turning the carton upside down for several minutes and shaking it to get the rest of the yogurt out. Never the less I still ended up throwing out 108 grams of perfectly good yogurt, because it was stuck in the carton. Thats more than 10% - or 1,25DKr. It isn’t much, but it’s still stupid.

A clear sign that this kind of packaging is not suited for that kind of content.

Arla, one of the worlds biggest dairy companies, have made a somewhat genius solution with the Arla Yoggi® Squeeze.

However it holds only 200g and costs the same as 1000g in carton box. But it’s a start :)

Have a look at these abstract photos. They are made entirely by the use of camera, printer, paper and a red background. See the process on the flickr page.

Once again, amazing robot technology.

You cant really help to be inspired when you see machinery like this. Just imagine all the different uses a technology like this have. All those uses might be subject for an idea generation blog post at some later time.

Alternative uses of industrial robots

And great to see openminded engineers who looks for new uses of these amazing machines. 

A different take on communicating, what can be, complicated information in an easy and user friendly way. From Thomas Goetz at TEDMED 2010.

Danish Car Design at it’s best… Right up there in the league with Henrik Fisker.

Initially the bike theft issue should only have been a one-post-matter. But once again there has been an interesting development. Apparently the new “bike-owner” didn’t quite learn the lesson after all. He mounted a new quick-release front wheel - which once again have resulted in a useless bike. Apparently this is a natural stage in the life cycle of a bike.

Just as a short followup on the bike theft issue mentioned in the former post.

By coincidence I actually think I found the rest of the bike. And apparently the “new bike owner”, learned the lesson. He has locked the rear wheel to the bike stand instead of the front wheel.