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Comfort of Strangers in NYC

June 22, 2008

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Simon Evans and Simon Johnson took Comfort of Strangers, a street game using wifi and handheld devices developed as part of Media Sandbox, to Come out and Play Festival in New York City this month. Read their blog of the visit here, or watch the film.


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Media Sandbox Commissions announced

January 18, 2008

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The six Media Sandbox commissions are announced today. Below is the list of companies from across the South West who we will be working with over the next three months on pervasive media R&D projects. The awards went to:

Ani-Mates | HMC Interactive and Aardman
Storytelling through augmentation of space and location

Harmonize | Licorice Film
A site-specific collaborative team game exploring behavioural dynamics of team play across physical and virtual worlds.

Happy Town | BDH and Plot London
Exploring how pervasive media might support us as creatures that seek happiness.

Happy Packages | Thought Pie
Delivering a smile to Bristol's media users.

Power To The People | Altern8
Creating a way for installations in public places to be controlled by the public themselves.

Swarm | Simon Evans and Simon Johnson
A tool-kit to enable groups of individuals to use the power of their collective creativity

Read more at http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008-commissions/


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Investment models

February 10, 2007

Posted by Clare in: Innovation | Funding | Add a comment

The MIT Things that Think consortium has corporate sponsors for a particular area of research -

"Things That Think" is inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments. We bring a unique, boundary-breaking perspective to research, uniting leaders in science, engineering, design, and art. Grounded by extensive corporate sponsor interaction, our prototypes and demonstrations aim to inspire the products and services of tomorrow."

Becoming a corporate sponsor entitles people to particular benefits


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