Media Sandbox
Media Sandbox is a development programme that carves out a space for research, supporting brilliant people to make time and take risks in interactive, digital media and deliver innovation to the market. Visit the Media Sandbox web site to read more.
Jan 2008 - present
Media Sandbox enables companies to research emerging possibilities in interactive, digital media, create new ideas and deliver innovation to the market through a commissioning programme. It does this by connecting creative talent with leading technology companies with content commissioners – bringing together people with ideas with people who can realise those ideas with people who invest in new ideas.
Initiated in 2008 as an annual scheme with an annual theme Media Sandbox provides a dynamic environment and, crucially, funding to enable new ideas to be developed to prototype stage so that they are viable business propositions.
Media Sandbox is produced by iShed working with South West Screen with support from South West Regional Development Agency, HP Labs and Watershed. iShed is a Watershed venture to enable and support innovation and collaboration between computing, communications and the creative industries.
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AudioEnable
A service that allows users to freely capture audio directly and incorporate audio into their own website.
Happy Packages
Happy Packages was a research project all about bringing a smile to the streets of Bristol using mobile phones.
Happytowns
Media Sandbox award recipients Plot and Burrell Durrant Hifle explore the potential of pervasive media to support people being happy.
Harmonize
A site-specific alternate reality game exploring the dynamics of team play across physical and virtual worlds.
Mapping Software 1.0
Media Sandbox recipients AntiVJ developed software that allows any surface, object or volume to become a canvas for projection.
Physical Cartooning
An ambitious attempt to bring animated Aardman characters to life in real Bristol locations where people could interact with them.
The Generator
A tool that connects music fans and their heroes using texts and online social networking to create compelling promotional campaigns.
Street Art Dealer
A web based tool that enables street art to be discovered, and bought, using a mobile phone.
Swarm
A research project that culminated in the Comfort of Strangers, a street game using wifi and handheld devices.
Viral Spiral
A series of live cross-media game show concepts – where pub quiz meets Alternate Reality Game via Treasure Hunt!
Visual Voice Pro
Explored how mixed-media stimulation via sensors, light and sound can improve the health of children with learning and physical disabilities.