Boredom is essential for creativity — The arrival of the smartphone has meant that we can have the Internet with us day and night, wherever we go: something that is hard to say no to. …

Writer, curator and editor-at-large of Wallpaper* magazine Henrietta Thompson wrote a thoughtful essay for Punkt. entitled ‘Look Around’. In her essay Thompson explores how pervasive digital technologies are impacting our social lives. How they affect our notions of privacy, our approach to multitasking, and ultimately how we interact with each…

Voicephones, smartphones, buttons, touchscreens, software and the future. On December 23rd 2022, Kevin Mikchluk posted on CrackBerry.com a review about an unreleased Punkt. concept product which dates to 2015: the ‘MC01 Legend’. For those who don’t know CrackBerry 2.0, it’s the recently relaunched version of CrackBerry 1.0, …

Far into the night by Alain De Botton It’s far into the night, but sleep won’t come. You turn over. Perhaps a different position will quieten the mind. Or maybe the other side was better after all. Panic sets in. Not sleeping feels like a disaster. For very understandable reasons our culture has arrived…

Berlin-based single-working parent, Clara Hahn, tells us how quitting her smartphone for a voicephone changed her life. On August 10th, 2021, I decided to break up with my smartphone. And no, I don’t live in the woods, exiled from the modern world, where this decision might not make much difference…

If we didn’t really know how vital sleep is for our good health and wellbeing before the digital revolution, we certainly do now. It’s time to start fighting back. Because it is an epidemic, a real medical emergency. Neuroscientist Matthew Walker’s astonishing book Why We Sleep lists how sleep-deprivation is…

This piece on the legacy of the morse code is a contribution by community member, Micah Schweizer. Micah works in communications in the Zurich area. Previously, he was a public radio journalist in the U.S., you can follow him on Twitter here @MicahSchweizer. Arguably, I reached peak nerd at age…

Design students, Raphael Jung and Jan Sagasser, from the German design school HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, asked Punkt. to support their Bachelor’s Thesis on the sustainable design of products and to create three product prototypes. The consumer electronics sector is known to fall behind other sectors in sustainability issues, this is…

Part of a series of essays on the subject of cash versus computer-based financial exchange. The spectacular global shift away from using cash for transactions, accelerated by the Pandemic, is yet another example of an immense social change that is scarcely being analysed or discussed; rather than being a conscious…