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The Passing of Seasons
It’s the same story every year, for me and people around me.
Along with the end of Christmas, a few weeks into the new year, it dawns upon the Swede that even though the days might have become a bit longer it’s still awfully cold and the, once so bright, Christmas snow has gotten itself into an on again off again relationship with the underlying frozen dirty ground, leaving behind it an eyesore of a slushy mess.
Every year we ask ourselves, why? Why do we keep up with it, is it worth spending the better part of our lives living in cold trying to protect ourselves from the wet and the darkness?
When people in warmer climates say that they miss having real seasons, do they really know what they’re asking for?
Either way, the argument often ends with the conclusion being drawn that even though the thought of eternally warm and sunny weather, without the need to wear layers of protective clothing, may be nice, it’s still pretty great with all the benefits that home has to offer and when that first day of spring finally arrive it was all worth the wait!
Right?
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Spend a week with a Mutewatch
There’s still a few places left for our ”Spend a week with a Mutewatch” test next week so if you want to participate email me at fredrik.lundin@Mutewatch.com.
We are currently looking for men and women between the ages of 25 to 40.
The technician behind the Mutewatch, Johan, will return from our factory in Taiwan on the 25th of February with fresh Mutewatch prototypes waiting to be tested. You will be given a prototype Sunday the 27th of February and then all you have to do is go home and spend the week with a Mutewatch.
If you don’t fit into the age group and your life is extradorinary and you feel you would be absolutely perfect for a Mutewatch test, send me an email and we’ll work something out.
If you’re interested and in Stockholm, Sweden on the dates mentioned above, email me at fredrik.lundin@Mutewatch.com
We want you to help us make Mutewatch better. So if you want to take part in developing and exploring a piece of technology that’s soon going to be all over the world, send me an email.
Fredrik
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Spend a Week with a Mutewatch
Between the 27th of February and the 6th of March Mutewatch will perform the final prototype tests and we are looking for participants.
The technician behind the Mutewatch, Johan, will return from our factory in Taiwan on the 25th of February with fresh Mutewatch prototypes waiting to be tested. You will be given a prototype Sunday the 27th of February and then all you have to do is go home and spend the week with a Mutewatch.
If you’re interested and in Stockholm, Sweden on the dates mentioned above, email me at fredrik.lundin@Mutewatch.com
We want you to help us make Mutewatch better. So if you want to take part in developing and exploring a piece of technology that’s soon going to be all over the world, send me an email.
Fredrik
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Try it, Touch it.
Last week I posted an add asking for people wanting to participate in the tests and focus groups we are performing in the final stages of the development of Mutewatch. The response has been overwhelming. People from all over the world has emailed in wanting to take part in the development of Mutewatch. We are very excited.
Last week was an open call. This time I’m going to be a bit more specific. During September Mutewatch will organize a number of focus groups in Stockholm, Sweden where participants will be able to try and touch and discuss Mutewatch. If you’re interested please email me at fredrik.lundin@mutewatch.com
Ones again, thank you all for being so kind and showing such great interest in Mutewatch.
By Fredrik
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Hello world
Article by Engadget here
Yesterday Mutewatch made the design of Mutewatch official – aiming to give the world a sneak peek of what we’ve been working on the past two years…
What we thought would be a small little happening turned out to be a BIG BANG ! The minute Engadget (and shortly after Gizmodo, read it here) wrote about Mutewatch our server broke down because of the amount of people entering the website. We started to get e-mails from small blogs that had written about us after noticing the stream of people entering their pages after searching for Mutewatch on Google. People left comments on our facebook page about wanting to order one, e-mailed us, texted us etc etc.
So what did we do? Even though it was after hours in Sweden I managed to get a hold of the mobile number for the CEO of Crystone (after highjacking the power from all the tv-screens at some random rock bar as I was picking up a delivery in the middle of nowhere with low battery on my phone). He organised so that 600 other websites were shut down in order to try to get our homepage up and running – but it still wasn’t enough. Things got even worse (better?) when Sweden started to get what was happening and published interviews made months ago, pictures of the product, sharing on Facebook – not aware of the fact that the current break down was evidence of Engadget’s power and the huge interest in the product, all over the world!
We’ve been working in the basement – hoping and dreaming that in the end you will like what we do. What a reaction! It’s only been 24 hours since the press release and the amount of e-mails we’ve got from people all over the world providing us with their advice, help and cheerful greeting is just madness. Thank you all!! We’re listening, we’re excited and we’re looking forward to provide you with Mutewatch!
People stay tuned! We promise to provide you with some more info about the product within short as we continue our hard working journey! This will be a great deal of fun – and we’re happy that so many have joined the ride already! Keep on providing us with your thoguhts – we love it!
Talk soon!
Mai-Li et al.
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Here At Last
Summertime has finally come to Stockholm!
My legs are stockingless and the loveliest smell of fresh earth and flowers lingers in my nose.
Even though the period January to April in 2010 was the warmest combined global land and ocean surface temperatures on record, we have definitely not experienced a mild winter in Sweden. On the contrary it has been remarkably cold!
So I think I speak for a lot of Swedes when I say: Välkommen sommar!
Livia xx
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Best Days
Photo by William Eggleston
7.00 A.M. Rural outskirts of Kisumu, Kenya
I can hear Wai Yan brushing her teeth. After she spits out the toothpaste she gurgles something for an entire minute. She may have to drag me to work today; the sound of a nearby wake has made me sleep fitfully throughout most of the night. If I don’t get up soon Wai Yan is going to knock on my door. The mosquito net is too short, even though I wrapped the lining tightly underneath my mattress I am no longer laying underneath it. This is annoying; I prefer waking up inside the conical shape of my net since it makes me feel safe. It is now ten past seven, I am going to listen to a song on my iPod and then quickly figure out what to wear. I have to look attractive since I am meeting you for dinner later.
17.30 P.M. Train heading north towards Edinburgh, UK
The man in the aisle opposite me is watching me watch a podcast about Malcolm Gladwell. I try to make him uncomfortable by meeting his gaze and nervously uncrossing and crossing my legs. For a while I listen to two women talk about the difficulties of combining work and motherhood, none of their friends seems to have got it right. I think of the three-year old who kept pulling down my seat tray a few hours earlier, and his indifferent father. As the train makes its way into Scotland I try to imagine what you will look like, waiting for me at Waverley station. The elderly man next to me is watching an episode of House on his laptop, I smile to myself- perhaps the world ain’t so bad after all.
13.40 P.M. Arlanda airport, Sweden
No one has come to pick me up. I walk through the throng of people to get a coffee and pretend to wait. My phone has run out of credit and I can’t find my Swedish sim card. Every semblance of composure begins to dissolve, and I am reduced to a wet, dribbling mass lying on the ground like a snowman in the sun. A cloud starts to hover above me, then another one and finally a third. I look up expecting rain to wash over my face. And then, suddenly, millions of bouquets start falling over me. I cry and hug my family to death.
By Dési Wariaro
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Andrew Rozas
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Mai-Li Hammargren
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