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Project Holodeck – The Video

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And now, as promised, the final piece of my Over the Air jigsaw – the Project Holodeck presentation. Throughout the event, as people coded little coffee cups, pretend musical bottles on iPhones and bluetooth powered orchestras, by the stage was the sound of hammering, sawing and general DIY noises with lots of wood, nails and curtain fabric. As I explained to everyone, the team (Leeky, Rachel, Joanna and myself) were building a Holodeck – but thanks to health and safety it had to be inside a Faraday Cage… hence the construction. You can read more on the construction and background

Now at platform fun, the slightly delayed Over The Air report

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I know it happened at the end of September, and I had a rather explosive role in the proceedings, so apologies if you’ve been waiting for something a bit more in-depth from the Over the Air… or the footage of Project Holodeck. In the run up to the event, some of the video team behind Click and Tech-Know on the BBC started a conversation with me on getting some coverage from the event. That’s now been posted online over at the BBC News Technology section, along with some words from me on my favourite projects and the ethos behind the

Project Holodeck, Pyrotechnics and Presentations: Over the Air 2009

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As I mentioned in my last post, this past weekend saw myself attend Over the Air, the two day mobile development conference with seminars, presentations and demonstrations from the leading handset manufacturers, software houses and networks; a great chance for myself to mix in person with the mobile community; and of course the hackathon – where people take an idea and build their code or project in during the event and through the night before presenting it to the audience at the end of the second day for kudos (and prizes). Following tradition, everyone was expecting something spectacular from myself

Over the Air and “something pretty spectacular” this weekend

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This weekend sees the return of Over the Air – the two day “learn about cool mobile tools and then go hack something together and show us what you’ve got” event. While it’s not quite Mashed, the Baker Street Irregular 2.0 crowd is sure to be in attendance… and yes that does include me. So I’ll be at Imperial College on Friday and Saturday, attending a number of panels and discussions from the likes of Vodafone, Nokia, OMTP, Windows Mobile, Yahoo and many more. And then it’s the overnight building of something, possibly from these tools, possibly from other ideas,