Products I have designed
Rubbish Bin AI Phone
Mr. Mülleimer is an old landline I found in a pile of bulky waste. I gave him a Raspberry Pi and an AI voice, and now he calls me every day in the afternoon so I can practise my German. Most AI waits for you to open a chat window. This one rings me. He never asks if it’s a good time. He doesn’t care. He only cares about talking German with me.
Smelly Computer
Smelly Computer is my experiment with scent as an interface. I built a prototype that “visualises” the weather forecast as a smell, so every forecast gets its own scent profile. Computers usually talk to us through screens and sound. I wanted to find out what happens when they talk to your nose instead.
Head Mounted Beer Holder
A cupholder you wear on your head. I designed it for concerts, where you need your beer within reach and both hands free to clap. Part practical accessory, part questionable product idea.
Stoopid Ideas I’ve actually done
Pesto Vape
I took a used single-use vape and refilled it with pesto flavour. Disposable vapes are an odd idea to begin with: a battery and a bit of electronics that go straight in the bin once the vape is empty. Pesto Vape is my comment on e-waste, consumer culture and how much we will put up with for convenience and a nice taste. It’s mostly a joke. The e-waste is real, though.
Automatic AI-Tabloid slob
BOT-T was my self-writing news site, named after the Danish tabloid BT. Web scrapers collected real news, and AI exaggerated it ad absurdum. Accuracy was never the goal. I wanted to see what happens when you automate sensationalism. The result was ridiculous and, unfortunately, strangely familiar.
Ironic art-collective
Scandinavian Glue was an ironic art collective I started with my friend Mats. We shared an obsession with making stickers and putting them up in scruffy bars. It was just for fun, but the stickers became popular in our small circle of friends, and we began to wonder if they could be more than ad-hoc bathroom art. So we turned them into posters and tried selling them. Somehow people bought them. Maybe it was the aesthetic, maybe the absurdity. The joke became a small business.