Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

It’s something that a number of people have thought of. But in February, a group of people met at the Garage48 public services design competition and actually did it – visualized the Republic of Estonia’s budget. Coloured spheres that open on MeieRaha.eu shows the structure and proportion of the revenue and expenditures in the state budget. [...]

Something noteworthy happened at the previous Garage48 event in February: a team of five IT enthusiasts took on the eKool (eSchool) academic information system – which has been in wide use for years in Estonia without a true competitor – mapped some of its major shortcomings and offered a new, more attractive solution – the mKool [...]

The brothers Kaur and Kaspar Kallas have developed, together with the USA camera producer, Silicon Imaging, probably the world’s first stereoscopic video camera that is able to record a three-dimensional image. This wonder gadget has already drawn the attention of many of the world’s top directors, including James Cameron and Werner Herzog who used it [...]

The Garage48 competition traditionally produces a variety of strange cell phone games, albeit ones with distinct commercial potential. After all, people are thirsting for virtual entertainment that may be somewhat lowbrow but crinkles the corners of their mouth.  Last year’s Tartu Garage48 resulted in the ultimate anti-game – Smashr, which measured how fast players could [...]

HomeViewSolutions, a start-up that evolved out of the Ajujaht 2010 competition, is developing a service that will make it much easier and faster to buy furniture for the home and office. A question that potential buyers always face in such cases is whether the item will fit. One way is to use measuring tape and [...]

Recently a video artist Tuuli Lepik (pictured) launched her digital video art company in Ülemiste business incubator. She is looking to awaken Estonian multimedia design from what she sees as a long-dormant state. The name of the company owned by this multimedia graduate of the Academy of Arts is Blue Cat, and it develops multimedia products [...]


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