Archive for March, 2006

Interesting new blog on consumer electronics

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

we don’t often get thought of as part fo the consumer space, but we are and it feels good to tell people.

Mashplication instead of mashup

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Mashplication is a neater way of saying situational application.

Next Gen Gaming Facts

Monday, March 20th, 2006

You cant get a next gen games console without buying IBM

Think Friday - The Wetware Grid

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Fridays in IBM is Think Friday, some musings on the use of human wetware in the services loop

Fame, and bananas

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Following on from my previous post about Blue Fusion, the local newspaper has picked this up. I’m the one on the left holding the inflatable banana…
The event has just finished, incidentally. Yesterday I hosted Search for a Planet, which was a way of exploring planets, physics, and geology. A short video from the ship’s computer [...]

The genetics of dragons, and the wisdom of monkeys

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

(remix of something I posted to my personal blog - this is Hursley-related, so it is definitely worthy of inclusion here)
I’ve spent the past two days as an activity host at the Blue Fusion event in Hursley. The title of the post will become clearer if you read on…
For those that don’t know, every year [...]

Tilting at ThinkPads

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Roo puts the accelerometers in a ThinkPad to a novel use

Film Star for a day: Live

Monday, March 13th, 2006

A few weeks ago Andy wrote about having a film crew in his house making a web advert about IBM innovation. The film has been edited and is now live on the IBM site. Check it out here and find out about Andy’s MQ enabled mousetraps and llamas.

- Darren Shaw (Emerging Technology Services, [...]

Ambient Penguin Video

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

The video of DCJ’s ambient penguin is now online. You can see Roo’s hand setting his IM status and the penguin’s eyes changing colour accordingly. It’s currently set to display our manager’s status - gives us advance warning of when she’s about.

- Darren Shaw (Emerging Technology Services, IBM Hursley)

All gathered around an ambient penguin

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

A prototype ambient device using zigbee, Dave’s penguin