The Superflux Blog

There’s a nice feature about my talk at LIFT10 in the LeMonde! © photo by fgirardin, showing the Superflux ‘strategy-sketch’.

Last month I gave a keynote talk at LIFT 10, France in Marseilles, following a lovely invitation by Nicolas Nova, who wanted me to open with a ‘broader, inspirational talk about design and how different approaches to prototype near-futures are important’. (No pressure!) Here’s the video from the talk: And here are my slides: Slides: [...]

Here’s the presentation I gave at FuturEverything, its a peek into our process and outcomes from the Power of 8 project, with an emphasis on the nature of our multidisciplinary collaboration and our DIY-future prototyping methods.

We presented the 5th Dimensional Camera in the IMPACT! Gallery at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Thanks to EPSRC and the festival organisers for hosting us. We spoke to scientists, school children, teachers, journalists, parents, students, authors, makers and many more.  Much fun was had, here are just some memories… more images here.

As part of the public engagement activities around the 5th Dimensional Camera project, we ran a school workshop with A level science students from York. They were given an overview of the project in the exhibition, and we then discussed various possibilities and likely implications of Quantum Computing. Finally, all of us split into teams [...]

“What will it be like to admit Artificial Companions into our society? How will they change our relations with each other? How important will they be in the emotional and practical lives of their owners? How much social life might they have in contacting each other?” These are the opening questions of the recently released [...]

When the theory of quantum physics was first developed the technological innovations that followed, including lasers and semiconductor electronics, transformed our world. Scientists are now working towards a second revolution, as they attempt to build a fundamentally new kind of machine: “a quantum computer that could manipulate the fabric of reality in order to perform [...]

Featured in this month’s Wired UK, with a rather interesting title!

The title of this post is inspired from the famous Schrödinger thought experiment. A cat is placed in a sealed box with some poison, whether the poison is released or not is controlled by a random ‘quantum event’ such as radioactive decay. In the experiment, the cat must be simultaneously both dead and alive until [...]

Few weeks post TEDIndia, I am still a bit overwhelmed, trying to decompress the experience. Sunitha Krishnan’s images of the many thousands of young girls she continues to rescue from Indian brothels through her organization Prajwala shook the soul. Her words “Very often you find that the victims have an incredible sense of ‘giving’, they [...]