As the summer approaches we’re slowly preparing to test one of our latest prototypes of the Good Night Lamp and looking for beta testers. We’re going to applying for a little funding to try out 50 sets of the Good Night Lamp for people in the UK who want to give it to an elderly parent Continue Reading
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10MayWeek 61: A new recruit & talking to real people
Almost 2 months and we’ve been super busy showcasing the Good Night Lamp, talking to people who can help us make it and meeting “real people”! By that I mean I spent a week with the lovely Georgina Terrana & Rachel Rayns in Birmingham last month showing the Good Night Lamp as part of the Continue Reading
30MarWeek 55: On Canal +
We were extremely pleased to be featured in the Canal+ daytime talk show La Nouvelle Edition on Friday (see 1 mn in). I grew up in France watching Canal+ for its english content so this is especially exciting for me and our first time on television! “Super mignon” means “super cute” by the way :) Continue Reading
22MarWeek 54: The importance of sharing (or not)
I’ve been thinking about broadcasting and signals at the moment so you’ll excuse a more esoteric blogpost. Of course we’ve assumed owners of the Good Night Lamp will give Little Lamps to friends and family, but what if Justin Bieber had a Big Lamp and Little Lamps were sold to all his fans (we can Continue Reading
04MarWeek 51: The Social Life of Lamps at Launch Festival
One of the important things about the Good Night Lamp is that it’s connected online. This means that from the beginning, we thought about the interactions that a user might want to have with his network of lamps. We’re in San Francisco for the Launch Festival as part of the Demo Pit and we’re extremely Continue Reading
10FebWeek 47: Our store is live!
This month has been incredible really. We went to Vegas, launched a Kickstarter and then today launched a store for the first batch of Good Night Lamps. Everyone has been extremely supportive: our backers first and lovely people like Dan and John who wrote about us for Forbes and ComputerWorld documenting a decision we made Continue Reading
22JanWeek 45: Half time for Kickstarter campaign
So we’re half way through our Kickstarter campaign and I thought I’d share some of the data we’ve gathered and some of what we’ve learnt. 1. Geographies of care At CES, we asked people to fill in a postcard answering 2 simple questions: who would you give a Little Lamp to and where do they Continue Reading
07JanWeek 43: We’re now on Kickstarter
After many a conversations with our advisors, investors and others like Ed Borden who had experience with the Air Quality Egg, we decided to take the leap and start a 30 day Kickstarter campaign which we’re launching at CES tomorrow. This was carefully considered and we decided to go ahead because it would allow us Continue Reading
11DecWeek 39: At CES in less than 30 days!
We’re in the last stages of sending over the booth that we’ve designed with Costas and Tom has been making. It’s now wrapped up in one big pallet weighing 230 kgs! With less than 3 weeks to go before the show starts, we’ll be trying to get a bit of rest before we hit what Continue Reading
