TEDx Cardiff highlights

Black Holes, Ear wax eating maggots, Beatboxing, T-Pain and Vintage Vocoders were just some of the topics discussed at TEDx Cardiff this Wednesday. 

The independently organised TED event was put together by Neil Cocker and Claire Scantlebury, it was a great evening and certainly got me excited about many things I never even knew about, my highlights were:

Wendy Sadler and her excellent explination of how vocoders work. She showed some great vintage clips of the first ever vocoder performance.

Robert Simpson and his enthusiastic and simple explanation of how small and insignificant we are on earth!

DK and his Inspiration Found project, which presented his recent book project. Have a look at this here: http://gnatgnat.com

Thanks to all the organisers for the excellent line up, great venue, cheap tickets, friendly people and inspirational talks.

Pecha Kucha Night Cardiff

Pecha Kucha Night Cardiff is a new creative night of bite size presentations. It’s run by Lou Cameron from Inkling who pulled together a great mix of creatives, academics and artists. The night was broadcast live and you can watch all talks online here.

The next event will take place on the 27th May at Chapter Arts In Cardiff, where i’ll be giving a bite size talk about design thinking. If your interested in attending the next event then check www.inklingcreative.co.uk for ticket info.

A brief guide to service design

Tickets are now available for my talk at UX Brighton on the 12th January, I will be speaking about service design with Nick Marsh from Conchango.

UX Brighton is an informal network of people from the Brighton area that have an interest in design, user experience and interaction. If you would like to find out more about what they are up to have a look here.

BBC Sport On Flickr!

BBC Sport are publishing their view of the Olympics on Flickr.

You can view all of BBC Sport’s accounts here

Photo: Water Cube, Beijing (BBC)

North Korean Mass Games

This is simply unbelievable, like a giant digital screen. I wonder how long it’ll be before we see a TV ad like this for Sony Bravia…?

Social Innovation Camp

What happens when you get a bunch of hackers and social innovators together, give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them? Well, the people at Social Innovation Camp aim to find out. 

The event is supported by NESTA and The Young Foundation and submissions are currently being received. 

I’m still working out what to do for this event, other people have submitted Barcode wikipedia, Personal cycle routes in London and Rate mv CV. 

Any Ideas?

Happy valentines day