The Touch Board is designed as an easy-to-use platform for a huge range of projects. Radical Interfaces – The Touch Board uses capacitive sensing to turn any conductive material into an interface. Imagine light switches painted on the wall with Electric Paint, interactive books or hidden sensors that can detect a whole person. The Touch [...]
Primo is a play-set that uses shapes, colours and spacial awareness to teach programming logic through a tactile, warm and magical learning experience. Primo makes an incredibly important, but otherwise uninteresting topic to children, enjoyable and fun. Primo is a play set composed by 3 main items that combined create the Primo play experience: 1. [...]
We’re hosting our very first UK event in May in conjunction with the Pint of Science team. Focused on all things innovative including biohacking, open science, 3D printing and internet of things for science. We’re still working on the details of the event, but will publish the schedule during January 2014. Very excited about the [...]
It’s a computer you make yourself. It’s simple, fun, and for everyone. And we need your help to make it happen. Kano emerged from a year of making computers with hundreds of kids, teachers, engineers, and artists. It’s based on simple steps, physical computing, and play. What can I do with it? Build… A computer, [...]
Alvin Stone, Media and Communications Manager at ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science presents at the Big Science Communication Summit in June 2013. The session explores the common challenge that scientists leave sceptics to dominate their thinking in terms of media engagement and framing scientific research. What was your science communication challenge? The [...]
Dustin Wellbourne, Masters and PhD student with the University of New South Wales, presented a great session on ‘Selfies Gone Wild’ at the Big Science Communication Summit in June 2013. Aside from persuading a number of audience members to take to their smart phones to take ‘Selfies’ – his session looked at ways to optimise [...]
We’re publishing the crowd sourced speaker sessions over the next few weeks that formed part of the Big Science Communication Summit in June 2013. We have six in total, and we are starting with Michelle Cooper from Zoo’s Victoria – with How to Love a Baw Baw Frog. Each speaker had 10 minutes to convey [...]
There was SO much happening in the realm of science engagement in August thanks to National Science Week. One of these was the Australian Museum’s Science Festival which brings thousands of Primary and Secondary students in direct contact with an eclectic mix of scientific projects – including ScienceRewired! We were honoured to have the opportunity [...]
How do you think the world would change if all the technology currently on the market multiplied in quantity and quality, several fold? That would be the difference if all patented research was commercialised, instead over 95 % of research and technology never reaches the marketplace but remain on the shelf, unused. Three life science [...]
Later this year we’ll be piloting a ScienceRewired community platform that will help to connect science communicators, digital innovators, citizen science advocates and educators. It’s the first of many projects we’re exploring – aimed at developing a global community of science communicators, educators and citizen science advocates eager to understand more about the use of digital technologies in science communication.