(Well, two thirds of it anyway) One of our favourite quotes in the Proximity planning team is one we suspect you’ve heard before too. It’s from everyone’s favourite ‘noir clairvoyant of cyberpunk science fiction’, William Gibson. In 1993, he said “The future’s already here, it’s just not that widely distributed yet”. We’ve been merrily over-re-quoting this curiously prophetic statement  over the last few years, but r...

We are now the proud owners of a MakerBot Replicator 3D printer. It’s kind of weird how exciting it is and how interested people are. It’s not like getting a simple prototype developed by someone has ever been a really long an arduous task and manufacturing has managed to produce some pretty incredible things over the years. But, the ability to start with a roll of plastic wire and end up with a working product 40 mi...

Minority Report gave us that glimpse into the future of interaction, people were very excited about the potential of standing in front of your computer in a pair of fancy gloves throwing your content around the screen, whilst looking cool. 10 years later and we don’t really see this type of interaction used much in everyday computing. Why? Perhaps it’s because we just don’t look as cool as Tom Cruis...