L.A. based design studio Use All Five have a great online accessibility colour picking tool which shows whether the colours pass the different levels of WCAG accessibility compliance.
Dublin IoT company Wia have released their first physical product, the Dot One. The IoT maker board is designed to help people discover the world of electronics and engineering using plug and play modules like buttons and sensors, without needing any programming experience. The Dot One board has built in WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.2 and a dual core 32-bit processor. It is available to pre-order at €24.99 on the Wia website.
This week we had an amazing NAWR concert featuring the first NAWR Ensemble. The Ode To Joy concert saw a range of musicians play and interpret Beethoven's Ode to Joy, the anthem of Europe, on a range of instruments from timpani, tenor horn, violins, theremin, banjo, electric harp and even a nose flute! Check out the photos from the concert here.
In the second half of this podcast episode, Blindboy plays an excellent and important live interview with Ellie Kisyombe abd Michelle Darmody, the founders of Our Table. Our Table is a non-profit organisation that "aims to build an awareness of food in multicultural Ireland and to highlight that the current system of Direct Provision is deeply flawed".
Find the cheapest flights from a starting point on any given day with greatescape.co. The flight search engine plots the options on a world map very nicely.
NVIDIA have released a have showcased a demo of its GauGAN image generation tool. The software allows the user to draw rudimentary scenes using a interface similiar to MS Paint, which are then converted into photo-realistic scenes using generative adversarial networks. Check out Peter McKinnon's reaction to the software in this video.
On St.Patrick's Day I attended The New Music From Ireland concert in Chaprter Arts Centre in Cardiff which featured Emma Coulthard, Jenn Kirby and Benjamin Dwyer. You can check out the photos from the concert here.
