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NEWS
APRIL 2012
BBC NEWS TECHNOLOGY 23 APRIL
ZX Spectrum's chief designers reunited 30 years on
The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX81 - at the time the world's best selling consumer computer - it introduced colour "high resolution" graphics and sound.More than five million copies of the various ZX Spectrum computers were sold over the family's eight year lifespan... read the full article including interview with Rick.
Link: BBC News Technology
APRIL 2012
Google Doodle celebrates ZX Spectrum and St George’s Day
Google today [23 April] marked St George’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the release of the ZX Spectrum home computer by adorning its home page with an 8-bit style graphic of St George slaying a dragon. Link: The Independent
DECEMBER 2011
Rick Dickinson featured in new book
"The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 Years of Innovation and Enterprise"
Microsoft founder Bill Gates KBE provides the Foreword to The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 Years of Innovation and Enterprise, a stunning new book on one of the world’s most enterprising clusters of technology businesses..
To be published in Spring 2012, the book describes the colourful history of the Cambridge Phenomenon and also looks to the future. Richly illustrated with photographs, cameos and anecdotes, it tells the inside stories of the companies and the remarkable people behind them; their successes, failures and lessons learned.
Sinclair is featured extensivley within the publication, covering the ZX81 and other innovative products.
Link: The Cambridge Phenomenon
MARCH 2011
ZX81: Small black box of computing desire
The Sinclair ZX81 was small, black with only 1K of memory, but 30 years ago it helped to spark a generation of programming wizards.Packing a heady 1KB of RAM, you would have needed more than 50,000 of them to run Word or iTunes, but the ZX81 changed everything..
Link: BBC News Magazine
OCTOBER 2010
Bill and Melinda Gates back designers of flourescing microscope
THE MILLENNIUM HEALTH MICROSCOPE FOUNDATION is delighted to announce that it is one of the winners in the 'Grand Challenges' competition held by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The $100,000 award will be used to develop a flourescing version of the Millennium Microscope which will be targeted at the diagnosis of malaria and tuberculosis in the developing world. The first prototype of this variant is expected in early 2011.Link: gatesfoundation.org
Wellcome Trust funds revolutionary miniature microscope design:
A substantial investment from the Wellcome Trust has enabled this exciting new microscope to go into full production which will result in its wide availability by late 2010. The microscope offers the magnification range of a standard laboratory bench microscope in a miniaturized palm size product for about 1/10 the cost. The product will be extensively field trialed for Malaria in various African countries. Dickinson Associates have been developing miniature portable field microscopes since 1988 and the new microscope, code named ‘Newton’ is the pinnacle of this evolution.Link: millennium-microscope.org
Link: wellcome.ac.uk
Millennium Health Microscope wins major Design Award
The microscope was announced the winner of 'Best Design Innovation' at the Creative East Awards 2009 held at the Theatre Royal Norwich and hosted by Clive Anderson.Links: millennium-microscope.org