Todays’ news are all about volatile gases: the iPhone will exclusively breath oxygen in the UK and Walker Crisps from now on labels its Crisp packets telling us how much CO2 has been released into the atmosphere for the production of each bag - from the growing of potatoes, over transport and preparation to packaging.

What is the connection between the two? Well, there is none really. The reporting of the Apple O2 deal can be found everywhere. The label telling us the footprint of CO2 for each bag of crisps hardly makes it.

Well this is no surprise, but yet there is an interesting observation to be made: While there are attempts to enable the individual to make a buying decision based on how environmentally friendly a product is, the carousel of gadget updates with the massive output of CO2 turns faster and faster. The iPod iPhone can be seen as only a representative - just look how regularily we update our mobile phones for newer, slimmer more potent ones.

When has the time come that a producer addresses the sticky question with our gadgets? Just a thought.

Most recipe sites I come across focus on the ingredients… I always find this strange. Rarely, when I am on the computer (either at work or in the studio), do I know what I have or haven’t got in my cupboards, and rarely are my food desires to do with particular ingredients alone.

Food is far more emotional than that. Our eating habits are usually inspired by moods, circumstance, time, money and less to do with specific ingredients. More often than not I never know what I want to cook, ‘how hungry are you..?, what kind of mood are you in..?, do you want to cook or shall I..?, are you hungry..?’ these are the questions that always preceed my decisions about cooking.

So I sketched a quick prototype interface, based on these types of questions. It’s a way of searching that I would find as far more inspirational and useful. Using sliders, would be quick and intuitive, and enables you to constantly change the parametres easily. Colours in the background could change and intensify as the sliders moved (the colour aspect would need more development… but could become an integral part of mood and taste matching.)