Remember two years ago, when BBC Radio 1 came to Second Life for One Big Weekend? This year they explored augmented reality with a Band In Your Hand. Here’s Scott Mills showing Chappers how it works.

Unfortunately the (Windows-only) download has already been taken down. Why? Because…
Due to music rights restrictions this download was only available [...]

This is what planet Hursley looks like early in the morning. Ian suggested I share. :-)

“We get so used to disguising ourselves to others that we end up becoming disguised to ourselves”

Jason Ellis works in IBM Research and maintains a brilliant blog about art and games. In a recent post, he links to this demo video for Melodyne’s new Direct Note Access technology, which looks frankly astonishing.

As the video shows, exploding a sampled chord allows the kind of editing we’re already used to with MIDI sequencers, [...]

On friday a contingent of the Hursley Emerging tech crew (a good few of who are founder members of eightbar) gathered in a Hampshire field to have a rocket launching competition. Fellow eightbar Rob Smart has produced this video of the entire event, its features all the key moments including Dave CJ’s rocket complete with [...]

Roo’s very own rooreynolds.com got a mention on this page in the computer weekly blog awards 2008
So in keeping with the desire to collect awards such as the IBM Baffler as well as voting for Roo or Andy Piper why not pop in a vote for eightbar too :-)

Nominate me in Web 2.0 and [...]