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Here’s a nice bit of coverage in the Pioneer magazine of the IMPACT! show, also featuring the 5th Dimensional Camera, with a review by Lord Robert Winston. And EPSRC have just released the lovely film they made during the show:

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 [...]

Quick Overview: As work is underway to harness the weird nature of our subatomic world to build a quantum computer, we, as designers, where given the unique opportunity to explore what the wider implications of living in a world with quantum computing might be. Initially we investigated the many possibilities that this new form of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]