Playing Paper
Playing Paper was created for the Paper exhibition put on by Analogue Social. This exhibition show from the 9th April to 12th May at the Lighthouse, Glasgow. Eight designers were chosen to create a...
View ArticleUNSA – Jon Spooner’s next steps to Space
During the International SpaceApps Challenge in Exeter the Product Research Studio focused on helping Jon Spooner, an aspirant astronaut from the Unlimited Space Agency, get a few steps closer to his...
View ArticleInteractive Newsprint
Interactive Newsprint (INP) has just come to an end (April 2013). It was an 18month EPSRC funded project that involved academics from UCLan, Dundee and Surrey and the project’s technical partners...
View ArticleUnlimited Space Agency and Bare Conductive at Greenman
Jon Spooner, Head of Human Spaceflight from the Unlimited Space Agency approached us this year to see if we could do something for Einstein’s Garden at the Greenman festival. Together we came up with...
View ArticleStarlight by Fieldguide
Jon, Tom and Mike from the studio have recently been busy with their Fieldguide project. Along with fourth Fieldguide co-founder Pete Thomas and his Uniform colleague Martin Skelly they created...
View ArticleHacking in front of an audience – Met Office at the V&A
WHAT DID WE DO? You know from reading this blog that we have been running and attending collaborative making events, or hacks, for quite some time now. We’ve put someone into space, we’ve been at...
View ArticleMe, the AHRC and the IEEE Big Data 2013
I trained as an electronic engineer. My PhD exploring digital neural network models of motion perception took me deep into technical detail and gave that badge of doctorate in the philosophies about...
View ArticleBig Humanities workshop on Big Data
As the IEEE conference on Big Data moved into a new phase, an incredible collection of humanities and technology partners gathered to share stories of what big data means to them. Ada Lovelace...
View ArticlePhysical Data India 2014
Physical Data India It’s great to be back at the world’s most important place for design – The National Institute of Design India . I’ve been here before exploring Physical Apps India and this time I...
View ArticleReview: Raspberry Pi B+
Pi Love! I’m not very good at looking after things. I’d like to be better, it’s just that I’m not. The roof on my house needs a few more tiles, my car needs a service, my bike is sitting in our cellar...
View ArticleA Touch of Fry
A Touch of Fry was our studios response to the Your Fry competition. This competition saw the one and only Stephen Fry make the content for his new book More Fool Me open source (text, artwork and...
View ArticleHack The University
Earlier in the year the Product Research Studio joined up with our wing-commanders in DJCAD Make Space and RS Components to show our university how they could and arguable should operate. To move...
View ArticleCan we make a social network? For real….
It is 6am and I’ve woken up a little early. The sun does funny things in Scotland. It doesn’t get hot like the most of the rest of the world and while it forgets to get up in the winter, it forgets to...
View ArticleBig Humanities workshop on Big Data
As the IEEE conference on Big Data moved into a new phase, an incredible collection of humanities and technology partners gathered to share stories of what big data means to them. Ada Lovelace...
View ArticlePhysical Data India 2014
Physical Data India It’s great to be back at the world’s most important place for design – The National Institute of Design India . I’ve been here before exploring Physical Apps India and this time I...
View ArticleReview: Raspberry Pi B+
Pi Love! I’m not very good at looking after things. I’d like to be better, it’s just that I’m not. The roof on my house needs a few more tiles, my car needs a service, my bike is sitting in our cellar...
View ArticleA Touch of Fry
A Touch of Fry was our studios response to the Your Fry competition. This competition saw the one and only Stephen Fry make the content for his new book More Fool Me open source (text, artwork and...
View ArticleHack The University
Earlier in the year the Product Research Studio joined up with our wing-commanders in DJCAD Make Space and RS Components to show our university how they could and arguable should operate. To move...
View ArticleCan we make a social network? For real….
It is 6am and I’ve woken up a little early. The sun does funny things in Scotland. It doesn’t get hot like the most of the rest of the world and while it forgets to get up in the winter, it forgets to...
View ArticleA Mirror on IoT and ourselves
The SelfReflector is an internet connected mirror that is able to calculate your age, play music from when you were a teenager and print out this image on a TapWriter. For centuries we have looked at...
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