The wearable technology market is booming, with half a billion wearables sold globally in 2020. Apps on these devices, or the devices themselves, often claim to monitor our health to spot illnesses, track our workouts to help us reach our fitness goals, or keep an eye on our children’s whereaboutsContinue Reading
Notre Dame School in Derriford, Plymouth has been given a Silver award for their work to make sure students don’t miss out on an education because they are young carers.The Young Carers in Schools programme helps primary and secondary schools improve outcomes for young carers and celebrates good practice throughContinue Reading
Degna Stone has curated a project to celebrate British and Irish authors of African and Caribbean heritage with GCSEPod North East business aims to shine spotlight on lack of diversity in GCSE curriculum and highlight these authors’ work Degna Stone, in collaboration with GCSEPod, has curated a series of audio-videoContinue Reading
Torquay Museum is delighted to announce its reopening on 17th May after almost five months of closure due to the Covid19 pandemic. Local people will get a 50% discount on admission price, and their ticket will entitle them to visit the Museum free of charge for a year. Visitors willContinue Reading
King Edward Mine Museum in Troon plans to open to visitors on May 23rd, each day from Sunday to Wednesday, subject to any further government changes of plan. The museum will open at 10.00am each day with the last tour starting at 3.30pm. Volunteers have been preparing the museum forContinue Reading
Golden Tree Productions (the team behind the famous Man Engine) has just launched the Outdoor University of Cornish Hedging, inviting one and all to take part in building Kerdroya: The Cornish Landscape Labyrinth by Colliford Lake on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. This extensive training programme supported by the Guild ofContinue Reading
Hunched innocuously in the shadow of Rome’s mighty Piazza Venezia, just a stone’s throw from one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, the Santi Apostoli church might be forgiven for having more respect for the dead than for the living. That’s because of the treasures that the church protects. As wellContinue Reading
The Banksy print that was burnt. Flickr/eddiedangerous, CC BY-SA A blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork and burnt it. But instead of destroying the value of the art, they claim to have made it more valuable, because it was sold as a piece of blockchain art. TheContinue Reading
Houses as power stations. Shutterstock/Studio Harmony Homes are the places we spend most of our time, especially during lockdown. Heating your home in winter can be expensive, and comes at a huge environmental cost too. Technology to make homes more self sufficient could help the UK decarbonise, while also makeContinue Reading
Clever frog. Shutterstock/Martin Valigursky For us humans, having a conversation in a crowded room is challenging – it’s often called the cocktail party problem. The mix of sounds arriving at our eardrums needs to be analysed to pick out the sounds of individual talkers and that’s a difficult task. TheContinue Reading
