Reboot10: Hardware as service

On Thursday and Friday, June 25 and 26, 2008, Ianus Keller returned to Copenhagen to attend and talk at the reboot10 conference with this year’s theme free.

Ianus Keller

After ReBoot8.0 I felt on one hand inspired by the talks, the mood and the participants, yet on the other hand completely out of touch with the crowd of bloggers, thinkers and writers. The audience and speakers didn’t seem to connect with the physicality and realness of products and prototypes; the world of bits and atoms. This is why I wanted to educate the audience at reboot10 by doing a talk about the relationship between hardware, software and services and the value of having a physical object in the hands of people.

How did I get there?

After both the audience and the organizers, I was offered a spot in the modestly named small hall on day 2. On my somewhat delayed arrival I was shocked to find out my talk was moved both one day earlier and to the big scary main hall. This got me somewhat off-balance. Luckily the speaker guidelines by Thomas Madsen-Mygdal specifically stated “step out of your comfort zone” instead of the “standard corporate presentation”, so they did get what they asked for…

Hardware as (Free) Service

After all the excuses above, there’s no turning back now. I embedded the video of my talk so you can judge for yourself. It really is a presentation of half-formed thoughts, using a tool for half-formed thoughts. I’d love to improve on it in a later presentatio, but enjoyed every (uncomfortable) minute on the stage and the instant feedback.

Slides (with links) are also embedded below, which I may turn out in a SlideCast if I ever want to take this talk any further.

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Luckily I was able to completely enjoy and indulge myself after the presentation. I found out that quite some topics and workshops were targeted at bridging the gap between bits and atoms lively micropresentations session gave me a chance to revisit the Tools For Inspiration presentation I did in 2005. The talks, mood and participants were still inspiring, so I leave you with my set of photos from reboot10.

Andy Budd#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613480038/in/set-72157605900277025Unsharp Andy Budd#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613482274/in/set-72157605900277025Preparing for talks#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2612763231/in/set-72157605900277025David Isenberg on bandwidth#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613598724/in/set-72157605900277025PDA feeding Nicole#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2612772737/in/set-72157605900277025Transmission of tradition#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613648590/in/set-72157605900277025Martin Ludvigsen#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613665366/in/set-72157605900277025Collective User#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613667226/in/set-72157605900277025Collective interaction#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613671924/in/set-72157605900277025Photo table#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613688664/in/set-72157605900277025Francesca Birks#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613678350/in/set-72157605900277025Violet#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2612848751/in/set-72157605900277025Why rabbit#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613685500/in/set-72157605900277025Nabaztag community#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613695784/in/set-72157605900277025Rabbit reading a book for you#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2613702340/in/set-72157605900277025Babbage’s noise#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2614134666/in/set-72157605900277025People as information#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2614143506/in/set-72157605900277025Thinking through free#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2614792505/in/set-72157605900277025Alper in the room#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623851133/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0655.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623853935/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0656.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623856605/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0658.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624688280/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0659.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623865523/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0661.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623871583/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0662.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623874219/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0663.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623860351/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0664.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624693622/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0665.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623877063/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0666.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624705444/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0667.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624708156/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0668.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624710852/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0669.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624713734/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0670.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623891931/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0671.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623894661/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0672.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624722746/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0673.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624725412/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0674.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623903211/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0675.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623905815/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0676.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624734064/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0677.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2624736884/in/set-72157605900277025IMG_0678.JPG#gallery tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2623914733/in/set-72157605900277025
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