Wrapping Up The Easter Show

After nearly two weeks of fun, and swollen from showbag goodness, yesterday nsquared wrapped up our time at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. What were we doing there? Lockyer Valley Regional Council was looking for an engaging display to set them apart from the mass of stands, and we were there to give them the solution they were looking for. We provided our friends at Lockyer Valley with one of our digitables complete with a range of nsquared apps and the response was overwhelming.

 As Australia's largest annual event, the Show had a huge turnout, nearly 900,000 people passed through its gates this year. Based on the rate of people coming through the Lockyer Valley stand, we would guess a large portion of Showgoers got their fingers on our digitable too. To demonstrate the great response we had, here are some estimates from our time at the Show:

4,420 pairs of cards matched in nsquared Snap

2,300 words made in nsquared Makewords

11,220 animals counted in nsquared Herding

254 masterpieces painstakingly composed in nsquared Paint

7,560 beautiful photographs and videos of Lockyer Valley scrolled through and engaged with on our nsquared Attractor app

Such a fantastic turnout with great feedback from both old and new friends is exciting for the whole nsquared team. It's always great to see new people collaborating and connecting on a table together. We look forward to seeing everyone again next year!

#RTV2015

This week is the annual  "Realizing the Vision of a Connected World" symposium, hosted by American material innovation company Corning. The event itself is focussed on understanding and projecting the future of technology by bringing together some of the world's juiciest brains to ignite and inspire discussion ; asking us the questions that most of us would find so difficult. Where are we going? Why? And significantly, how?

Amongst a host of distinguished speakers such as Dr Genevieve Bell, Vice President of Intel, and Dr Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft, will be our founder and director Dr Neil Roodyn - see him here on stage at a talk earlier this week. Having been involved in the software development industry since the 1980s, Neil will be shedding some insight into where he sees the future, and how he is realising his vision.

Corning's "Realizing the Vision" symposium is a landmark event on the calendar for any tech-head and the event itself will highlight the exciting possibilities technology has to offer, and will give us a glimpse into the near and not-too-near future. Corning is perhaps best known for their viral "A Day Made of Glass" video series, a snapshot of the future where every surface is interactive and technology is seamless.

The event itself, hosted in Mountain View California, will contain some select cutting-edge technologies depicted in Corning's "A Day Made of Glass" series such as mirrored interactive displays and other exciting visionary technology.

Glass is such an important part of our modern technologies that we need to consider how our world would look without modern glass. We are living in the Age of Glass, check out the latest videos by our friends the Mythbusters.

Did you know that we are creating a new content pack every month?

We have a dedicated software development team here at nsquared who create a new and exciting content pack on a monthly basis. These content packs are made for our educational and games applications: nsquared makewords, nsquared herding, nsquared snap, nsquared missing card, and nsquared jigsaw.

Each month we send our existing clients a notification advising them of the new content pack. Additionally, customers have the option to create content packs themselves using nsquared's online education admin portal.

Here is a quick synopsis of these applications:

• nsquared makewords: promote collaboration and competition by teaching your students how to spell.
• nsquared snap: a fantastic exercise for the classroom to get young minds thinking and their memory working.
• nsquared herding: a multi-user game that teaches object recognition and counting.
• nsquared missing card: help students solve maths problems using this pattern-matching game.
• nsquared jigsaw: get the students working together to put the pieces back together.

Get your students excelling with our latest content pack, 'Difficult Animals'!

If engaging your students is important to you, contact us for more details on 02 9262 3386.