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George Monbiot on Second Nature

In the next event in the series, George Monbiot, British environmentalist, journalist and author is coming to give a talk on Second Nature on Thursday. For those of you that don’t know him, George is the author of Heat: How we can stop the planet burning and his talk will cover all his ideas about what needs to be done, including a 90% reduction in carbon emissions, if we’re to avoid reaching the tipping point.  Read more

Tangible user interface

Tangible user interface

Fancy user interfaces are all the rage nowadays. Did you see Bill Gates ‘jamming’ with Slash at CES? Jamming as part of a crass marketing excercise, yes, but on a Guitar Hero guitar-shaped controller – in that context a step up in usability and (more importantly) style from a mouse and keyboard.  Read more