The challenge of indoor positioning

Posted on Sun 2 Jan 2011

Most of us are used to GPS and take being able to locate yourself outdoors for granted. But what about indoor positioning? Why is it so much harder and what options are out there? Tom Melamed, Product Director of Calvium and Dan Williams, Creative Technology Research Associate at the Pervasive Media…


Merry Christmas, everybody! Thanks for a great 2010.

Posted on Thu 16 Dec 2010

Can you believe that 2010 is already coming to a close? Time flies when you’re having a good time and we’ve had an incredibly exciting year. There have been new additions to our team, fascinating projects and new collaborators. We’ve run and supported great events, met amazing people and…

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Invite to Collaborate: set brief for masters student to work on your project

Posted on Wed 15 Dec 2010

An opportunity for companies in the Creative Industries sector: Do you have a technology-based idea/question/problem that you never manage to get around to working on because pesky client work always gets in the way? Or a new app/area of tech-driven business you would like to develop but can’t…

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Bristol Braille Technology

Posted on Fri 26 Nov 2010

The Pachyderms' Picture BCD project is in the process of being relaunched as an aspect of Bristol Braille Technology. See www.bristolbrailletechnology.com for the latest.

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A Look at Xbox Kinect Hacking

Posted on Fri 26 Nov 2010

There seems to be a lot of interesting things happening around hacking the Kinect recently. Here's a quick roundup of what people are making. What's Kinect? Kinect is an accessory for the xbox games console that allows Wii and Playstation Eye style games that are more physically active. The games…


Fashion, Cake and Digital Media

Posted on Fri 19 Nov 2010

On Thursday, 18 Nov, Encounters Film Festival invited fashion popcorn to Bristol to host an afternoon around digital media and film in the fashion world. Teaming up with Stink‘s Stephen Whelan, Studio director Clare Reddington and Matter2Media‘s Tim Kindber, Emily Fleuriot and her featherhouse…