Dr Laura James's writings

A ray of hope from my old colleague Emmanuel Moll , who has helped set up SaveNabaztag.com - an effort to raise funds from the community to rescue Violet , the struggling company behind the Nabaztag internet bunny. I've blogged about the Nabaztag before , as has Michael , who even stars in a lovely YouTube video showing how CamVine kit can be controlled by RFID bunnies. We're big fans - as much of Violet for making the first real consumer products showcasing what the internet of things can be, which is a great accomplishment - as of the actual Nabaztag itself. Having made internet connected electronics products from scratch ourselves, we know exactly how challenging this must have been for Violet. It would be sad to see Violet go under when they have achieved so much, and I'm intrigued to see how crowdsourcing rescue funding from the community might work. This isn't the first attempt to crowdsource funds - it seems to be all the rage at the moment - but with an esta...

contributed to a major building project (as part of City Blocks ) as Lady Delphinia Watson, helped select the new Grand Emperor (who turned out to be a joint appointment, and half revolutionary, which will lead to trouble in the future) (thanks to Dom Camus for this pic) created a semaphore-style code and used it for team communications, beating the oppositition, whose code was much less subtle (in Semaphoria ) found the treasure by following clues (in BinoHunt ) listened carefully to M, and tracked down and unmasked a spy (winning QNTMFSLC , a twitter-based game) wore a smart jacket and tie to record a news item, and helped my team of tabloid video hacks record a great many other stories, eventually causing both Frank Gaff and Michael Portobello to appear so depraved in the public eye that the election was called off (as part of the Yellow team, scoring the moral victory in Playmakers ) was a hedgehog during some Animal Mayhem (briefly!) Michael was a cow and achieved two shiny star...