The Happy Packages team has been invited to explore the ethics surrounding our project today with some of the country’s top thinkers.

We’ll be presenting the project in all it’s detail to Pervasive Media Ethics group (http://pervasivemediaethics.blogspot.com/) who are then invited to discuss anything and everything. No holds barred!

I’ll then be blogging up the main points later, good and bad!

A strange thing happened outside the office last Wednesday. Oceana runs an under 18 night, and out of the blue came hundreds of kids shrieking and laughing.

So rather than commenting on the youth of today, the price of cheese and other such things, we tried out some Bluetooth gopping with out the support of any Pervasive Relations (P.R). The test also had some different variables to our last gopping experience when we were chased by fanny in town, (more…)

One of the biggest challenges we’ve seen at Thought Den, (apart from having killer ideas, eyeing up potential ventures and knowing where to start…) is getting people to actually interact, turn on their Bluetooth or send an SMS with the system. In our every-day lives, we just don’t have the reason to start mucking around with our devices for doing more than sending a text or listening to music.

So a question is raised, (more…)