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Guardian Online, December 2006
We were pleasantly surprised to be mentioned in Guardian Online by Lucy Siegle in this article "Should I upgrade my television set?"
As prices for TVs and DVDs plummet, tempting us to buy yet more, the outlook is scary. By 2020 energy use for consumer electronics in the home will dwarf everything bar heating.We need to make better choices. A modest LCD screen TV is the most energy-efficient and the backlash against ill-considered products high on features and low on useful function starts at the new Digital Wellbeing Lab (www.digitalwellbeinglabs.com).
Icon Magazine, Jan 2007
London's new wave of Interaction designers
Alexander was interviewed by Daniel West from Icon on a special issue covering a new generation of interaction designers in London. Daniel has written a great article covering interaction design that is typically not covered in tech industry trade journals as much of the works covered here lie between the realm of art, technology, physical interaction design and craft.
Read the whole article here
One reason why this kind of work is becoming more widespread is that, in the age of the internet and open-source software, electronic technology has become cheaper, more readily available and easier to use. Technological developments used to be the preserve of large companies with their own research and development teams, but now smaller studios have access to it.
“In the Sixties and Seventies, feedback robots were so expensive only top-end manufacturers could produce them,” says Alexander Grunsteidl, founder of design and technology retailer Digital Wellbeing Labs. “In the Nineties, these tools stopped requiring programming languages or engineering knowledge. Now people are finally doing work where the expression is more important than the technology behind it.”
