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Idea Fund Award – a virtual white stick to help blind people ‘feel’ their surroundings, objects and textures.
Our latest ‘I’ve got an idea’ Fund award is to Matt Carlon, an Industrial Design Engineer with over 20 years experience in disability product development. In Matt’s words, “my idea is for a ‘virtual’ white stick that uses LIDAR technology … Continue reading
Idea Fund Award – using urban river waste to create aesthetic, floating structures for growing food
Our latest ‘I’ve got an idea’ Fund award is to Johana Hartwig, a Cardiff based artist exploring creative solutions to urban environmental issues. Her work has focused on water bodies within populated spaces and public access to natural resources. Johana … Continue reading
Idea Fund Award – wearable electronic health record for resource-constrained settings
Our latest award is to Brandon Smith to help him further research, prototype and experiment with his idea of ‘Amulet’ – an ultra-low-cost wearable electronic health record (EHR) designed for rapid deployment in resource-constrained or disrupted healthcare settings, such as … Continue reading
Idea Fund Award : Detox Bio Embellishment: Non-mined gemstones
Our first ‘I’ve got an Idea’ Fund award of 2025 is to Cassie Quinn for her lab experiments into creating reflective sparkles using biopolymers. Intriguingly, the idea was born from a mistake made in an experiment of Cassie’s while producing … Continue reading
Latest Idea Fund Award
We are are pleased to announce the ‘BLCK BOX’ project as the latest winner of an ‘I’ve got an idea’ Fund award . BLCK BOX is the idea for an innovative tool that uses granular data from sensors to create … Continue reading
Keeping the elderly warm this winter……
Over the past 3 years, I have been researching the problem of how to keep people warm in our wide diversity of UK housing without wasting energy and keeping costs manageable. My studies have included conventional central heating, heat pumps … Continue reading
‘I’ve got an idea’ Fund – braille project news
Great to hear update news from one of our 2023 fund winners on their experimental development of a digital Braille Reader to include graphics to enable blind people to play digital games. Ed has sent us 2 short videos of … Continue reading
SEA Talk on my Thermal Comfort Study
Slide set from my presentation to the Sustainable Energy Association is now available here. Interesting questions and discussion ensued.
‘Creating gods for our time’ – Invite to a workshop
‘Creating gods for our time’ – 3 day residential workshop https://larksandravens.com/an-invite/14th-17th October 2024.Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, Wales, SY20 9AZ A Visual artist & Experimental psychologist duo (a.k.a. Larks & Ravens) are looking to bring together 6 diverse creative practitioners … Continue reading
Idea Fund Award – Thermal insulation from crop waste
We are delighted to announce our latest ‘Ive got an idea’ Fund award to Antoinette Oni – an architectural designer, materials researcher and artist. Antoinette is working on how to create thermal insulation boards from a composite based on abundant … Continue reading
The Prospectory 