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Oriental Night at Kenza

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

25 Sandboxers, potential members, and some special guests met at London’s Kenza Restaurant to celebrate an oriental night around good food and brilliant people. The topics were wide-spread, as it were the people. Fraser Doherty, Global Student Entrepreneur 2007, gave interesting insights into “storytelling”, a topic which was curiously debated by both practitioners and academics [...]

From eco-clubbing to eco-working

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

With its powerful sound-system, its numerous lights, its heating and cooling system, a nightclub is an energy glutton. Trying to address this issue, the first eco-club of the world re-injects into the main circuit the energy produced by its customers shaking their bodies on the dance floor.

WHY DON’T WE HAVE THAT AT HOME? – FROM THE COMMENTS

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

A couple of weeks back, I wrote about the small but cool innovations I encountered in Finland, and asked readers to share their travel discoveries of things we would like to have at home in the comments. I’ve decided to re-publish all those inputs from the comments in this post, to make sure that everybody [...]

WHY DON’T WE HAVE THAT AT HOME? – FINLAND EDITION

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

The best innovations can be very small, but they improve the quality of your life in a certain way. And very often, those innovations are already being used somewhere – they just haven’t made it to your home place. That’s why traveling is so great: You discover a lot of those small but useful innovations. [...]