Barcelona City Council and Citymart announce an international call for businesses and entrepreneurs to propose their innovative solutions to six different challenges to transform public space and services in the city.
As a radical departure from many competitions, the BCN|Open Challenge is a direct commitment to contract the winning solutions. Winners of many urban competitions receive an award or the opportunity to pilot. Barcelona is breaking this mould by using public contracting to encourage innovation, entrepreneurship and the growth of small and medium enterprises.
Within the framework of the economic development initiative Barcelona Growth, BCN|Open Challenge is a new programme opening up the city administration to SMEs from around the world to transform public services. By seeking solutions to the city’s challenges with a more inclusive process, Barcelona will accelerate innovation and leverage public spending more effectively to deliver better public services. For the first time, public procurement directly focuses on innovation providers, leading to faster, stronger local economic growth and tangible improvements in citizens’ lives.
The six challenges are:
1. Reducing bicycle thefts in the city
2. Empowering support systems to reduce social isolation
3. Monitoring pedestrian flows in the city
4. Tools for digitisation of museum and archive collections
5. Automatic detection and alerts of damaged road surfaces
Sometimes we don’t make stuff perfectly (hey, we’re only human!), and while they’re acceptable enough to own, they’re probably not good enough to sell. So we’re giving one away.
This lemon coloured baby has some crazing in the glazing, and the concrete had some, err.. shall we say ‘consistency issues’. It’s all good, it’s rustic! And it’s free!
Want this cup? Like this post! Reblog this post! And make sure you’re following us. Yep, just like your favourite teen-fashion blogs, we’re doing a giveaway that is purely designed to make us feel popular.
The more notes you leave us the more likely you are to win - we’ll randomly pick a number in 2 weeks, and the winner will be whoever left the note that corresponds to the randomly chosen number. Hmm… Thats confusing to explain.
Note: we can post this anywhere in Australia for free, but if you happen to win and live internationally, we’ll have to sort something out. It’ll cost ~$20 to ship it to most places, but maybe we can make it worth your while.
Sometimes we don’t make stuff perfectly (hey, we’re only human!), and while they’re acceptable enough to own, they’re probably not good enough to sell. So we’re giving one away.
This lemon coloured baby has some crazing in the glazing, and the concrete had some, err.. shall we say ‘consistency issues’. It’s all good, it’s rustic! And it’s free!
Want this cup? Like this post! Reblog this post! And make sure you’re following us. Yep, just like your favourite teen-fashion blogs, we’re doing a giveaway that is purely designed to make us feel popular.
The more notes you leave us the more likely you are to win - we’ll randomly pick a number in 2 weeks, and the winner will be whoever left the note that corresponds to the randomly chosen number. Hmm… Thats confusing to explain.
Note: we can post this anywhere in Australia for free, but if you happen to win and live internationally, we’ll have to sort something out. It’ll cost ~$20 to ship it to most places, but maybe we can make it worth your while.
After much waiting to see what Mophie would release of the iPhone 5, I pulled the trigger and pre-ordered the Helium. I'd been debating about getting a case for a while. but never have as i've always run my iPhone naked (my friends don't know how I do it, I don't know how they run cases... but that's a post for another time).
I've always been interested by the Mophie cases as they protected and the battery would mean if I forgot to plug the iphone in overnight I could make it through the rest of the next day without too much trouble. The minimalist in me also liked the fact that I wouldn't have to take my lighting cable with me everywhere, so it integrated 2/3 things (phone-cable-external battery) into one, I like.
Size - not as bad as I thought it would be, sits quite nice in the hand, fits in my pocket pretty easy too. If people can carry galaxy S3's you can carry this.
Weight - not super heavy but I wouldn't want it to be much more than it is , we will see if the trade off for an extra days battery (my theroy base on my current use etc) is worth the weight penalty.
Materials, Fit & Finish- Not bad at all. The matte finish is nice and is a nice compliment to the black and slate of the iPhone The 2 halves clip together quite nicely and it holds the phone securely. Only questionable part of the case i've found is the standby/on switch for the case, it takes a bit to move and it seems a little flimsy... a nice metal/alloy switch would make a world of difference.
Function - buttons work as they should, haven't had a chance to try out the charging capabilities but will write about that more next week. The only gripe I have is the depth of the headphone jack. They provide an extension out of the box but, if they cut out a bit of the back corner it would have been much better and would mean one less thing to carry...
What I would redesign - being an design/ architecture student I always look at what could be changed or redesigned to make a better product, in my opinion. Not saying what is currently there is bad, I may have done it differently
The aforementioned power switch- an alloy or metal switch that was slightly easier to slide or more confidence inspiring to use would be nice.
The Power indicator- its quite obvious looks to Apples design on their laptops if they made the led's smaller like on the Macbooks that would be nice, not crucial but it would be a nice detail.
The bottom section of the case- it would have been a nice touch if it was made out of aluminium much like the Macbooks and also would solve the 2 previous bullet points without much trouble. It would have also been interesting from a tactile standpoint too, and generate some interest.
The headphone solution - it works but I might have done it differently.
Overall Impressions so far - No a bad case but not the case to end all cases either, but it does quite a good job. Check in in a week to see a more in-depth review/critique .
(and if you got this far thanks for reading- my writing is terrible and it probably doesn't make much sense, hahaha)
just some random cloud shots straight out of my fuji x100. I still need to get used to the viewfinder and the focal length but very happy with this camera so far! I haven't picked up an slr in all the time i've had this.
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