Christmas 2020, what to get the woman who has . . . . had a year of disappointment and cancelled plans? This was a hard year, lockdowns, home schooling, home working, self-isolation, fear, sickness, we all had a lot to deal with. Like a lot of people we had to cancel a foreign holiday which […]
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Cloud Before Cloud
The First Cloud Rendered Production I started at HP Research Labs just after the turn of the new millennium. Since the first computers, enterprises have craved flexibility, scale and agility from their computing investments. This was true in 2000 and it is still true now; it is uncanny how those needs have remained constant over […]
Cloud Migration Simulation
In 2012 it had been clear for a long time that the future for IT was the Cloud. Service providers had already started the race to build the next wave of infrastructure, platforms and services. Decision makers in large, more risk averse IT purchasing organisations had seen the early providers and adopters and began to […]
Ham Wall Starling Explosion
We got up in the middle of the night and hiked half an hour in to a reed bed to see these guys this morning. It was worth the ‘boring’ 30 minute wait to see a 4 year old running around a hide screaming STARLINGS! STARLINGS! with delight as half a million birds exploded in […]
Tunetable – A Shared Music Discovery Appliance
This is old. I built this back in 2007 originally. Its an interactive music discovery appliance built to operate on a shared interactive surface, such as a table. I may still rebuild it as a mobile app now that tablets are large and ubiquitous enough that it could support something like this. Here is a demo […]
Railway Town Animations
My Dad (Martin Parry) has just completed a film project he has been incubating for many years called Railway Town. If you like stream trains and films this is the thing for you. Its a fantastic piece of work which the BBC called ‘A Triumph’. It was great to cut my teeth at something new […]
Indian Railways Animation
My good friend and old colleague Chandrakant Patel put this sketch together for a piece of work he was doing on industrial IoT opportunities, something we have worked on together in the past. It was begging to be animated so here is it, about 30 mins work! I followed this tutorial on how to add […]
Home Made Rockets
Children love rockets. Adults love rockets. So we made some rockets at half term and had a test flight. I was also learning how to use Adobe After Effects at the time so got a bit carried away. Thanks to Public Service Broadcasting for permission to use their music. Hopefully Frank would have approved also. […]
Favela Painting UK
A good friend recently reminded me of something we did back in 2010. Inspired by Favela Painting we put together some mock-ups of what some of the drab buildings in my home town of Swindon could look like, given an industrial scale make over. It seemed like a bit of fun at the time and he […]
Secure Situational Awareness
Situational Awareness is all the rage. Its being driven by advances in both display technologies and big data/predictive analytics/data science, etc. My team and I built this customer demonstration at HP Labs showing how we can use NFC based authentication to display and redact information from a situational awareness environment based on knowledge of the […]