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Hi all and welcome to C:Cubed.  I hope you're going to have a creative and promiscuous day.

 Now to the spamming bit: I'm not in Gateshead.  I've had to cut myself in two this week: half to play my part in this event, half to install Not Quite Dead, an interactive digital installation by my artistic other half, Shanaz Gulzar and me, in Saltwell Park, Gateshead.

is anyone doing interesting interface/interaction design around numbers, maths or finance?

these couple of days have got me thinking that I really need to focus
on the interaction design of www.mycake.org. we've done some work on
making the visualisation of financial outputs (profit and loss etc)
easier to interact with ... but there's a long way to go.

i think the landing page the otherside of the login is probably my start point.

cake and a chat anyone?

We are keen to find bright-sparks with seeds of great ideas that use connected technologies in innovative ways to further social or environmental causes

We intend to use the collaboration workshops to develop the ideas - using team of delegates as mentors over the two days

Unlitd will provide resources to the best of the developed ideas

If you now any bright sparks that could benefit from this amazing opportunity, please send them our way as soon as possible

mail info@just-b.com and put enterprising ideas in the subject line

Or any suggestions would be gratefully accepted!

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Adobe recently demonstrated a new type of lens which, like an insect's compound eye, transmits several smaller images to the camera. The result is a photograph with multiple sub-views, each taken from a slightly different vantage point at exactly the same time. From this information, the computer can reconstruct a model of the scene in three dimensions. This looks set to revolutionise photography, and potentially film-making. http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9793272-39.html

This demonstration is incredible, especially the part where Blaise shows the interactive Notre Dame model, constructed from Flickr photos. This really shows the power of collective experiences being harnessed by innovative interfaces.