Scaling things up a little from my first eightbar post. This was one of those projects that just sort of “turned up”. About 3 weeks ago one of the managers for the ETS department in Hursley got a call from the team building the new IBM Forum in IBM South Bank. IBM Forums are locations [...]

I’m very excited to be welcoming another Hursley innovator as a guest here on eightbar – Benjamin Hardill (you can find him on Twitter as @hardillb). Here’s some insight into what he’s been up to lately! More home automation, hardware hacking, and MQTT messaging adventures follow I got a new TV around Christmas last year [...]

Just an average day in the Hursley tea bar! Martin Dix from CurrentCost visited to deliver a bunch of meters for people who had attended Home Camp 08. Whilst he was with us, Andy Stanford-Clark hooked up a (battery-powered) meter to one of his mousetraps to show how it is possible to detect traps going [...]

I moved offices today and having a bright new whiteboard I could not leave it clean for long. Its not really a mindmap, just some association of thoughts and bits of linkages. I am sure it will alter, but right now this is what was in my head in a mad flurry. The underlying red [...]

Thanks again to Malburns for spotting this and tweeting it. Rivers Run Red have released an example of an application layered onto immersive workspaces in Second Life. In this case it is around retail planning and visualization. This is an example of the next layer of toolsets that we can expect to see across virtual [...]