July 26th, 2010 by Tom Armitage · No Comments

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One emerging trend on the internal mailing list has been a steadily growing number of threads about robots – covering both big mechanical things, and also more domestic models, and even (as in the case of Barbie below), barely-bots. Time to start gathering those up! Gadgetwise point out the Barbie Video Girl Doll. It’s a [...]

July 19th, 2010 by Tom Armitage · No Comments

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The July release for Schooloscope is now out. The release includes all manner of bugfixes, thousands of new OFSTED inspections, and easy output to Facebook and Twitter… and also these beautiful papercraft schools that you can download for any school on the site. Find out much more, over at the Schooloscope blog.

July 18th, 2010 by Matt Jones · 1 Comment

July 8th, 2010 by Matt Webb · No Comments

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Tom is hammering away at Schooloscope. He’s off at a conference about play and invention next week, so hoping to get this month’s feature release cooked before then. Nick and Matt B are in the other room, working together on new product development. They’re aiming to take a tech proof of concept to minimum viable [...]

July 2nd, 2010 by Tom Armitage · No Comments

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I liked this take on what a Digital Holga might look like (the Holga, if you’re not aware, is a little toy camera). It’s well presented and has some lovely illustrations, but the two things I liked most were: the rotatable control panel, making it simple to convert for left-handed use; and the idea that, [...]

Last Saturday, Matt Webb and I hosted a short session at O’Reilly FooCamp 2010, in Sebastopol, California. The title was “Mining the Trough of Disillusionment”, referring to the place in the Gartner “Hype Cycle” that we find inspiration in – where technologies languish that have become recently mundane, cheap and widely-available but are no longer [...]