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The Heavy Projects

The Heavy Projects

In collaboration with Grand Center, the Art and Life Alliance and MOMO, Heavy has completed a digital, immersive, and interactive mural on the Moto Museum (Steve Smith, Owner) wall (85′ x 21′) in St. Louis @ Grand Center. The mural launched during the Dancing in the Streets event on Sept. 21, 2013. There are 14 basic shapes embedded in the painted mural. The Re+Public app unlocks 42 digital variations of those basic shapes and allows users to view and randomly re-compose the mural into hundreds of variations. http://theheavyprojects.com/index...

Tushar Chugh

Tushar Chugh

Tushar is a Software Developer at Microsoft. He recently completed his stint in the Hardware Division at Microsoft Research- Cambridge where he worked on ‘Sticker Circuits’ project. Sticker Circuits are a new way to build electronic prototypes by levering instant inkjet techniques which enables us to prints conductive circuits on photo paper. He is from the founding batch of the Young India Fellowship Programme (YIFP)– a multi-disciplinary, post graduate program started in 2011 in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania. Tushar is passionate about learning new technologies and making it accessible to the masses. He has participated and won many national and international competitions including project Wizitank (an unmanned ground vehicle) where his team represented India at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 in Warsaw- Poland and PregnaCare (for mother and child healthcare) which won second prize at the Imagine Cup 2011 national finals. His research interests include embedded system and robotics. One of his team projects named ‘viSparsh’, an electronic navigation belt for visually impaired was selected among the top 12 finalists of Asian Innovations Awards 2012 by The Wall Street Journal and was also titled ‘Innovation Jockeys 2012’ in a country wide contest powered by Accenture and Yahoo. His team also developed a wearable prototype (in the form of a t-shirt) for real-time health monitoring for which they won the first runner up prize at Health2.0 Developer’s World Cup 2012 at San Francisco by competing other country winners. He is an electronics and Communication Engineer. Company Site: www.microsoft.com Project viSparsh: www.visparsh.blogspot.com...

Ryan Rogowski

Ryan Rogowski

Ryan is the creator and CEO of Waygo, a visual translator application. Recently named Singapores 30 under 30 he lead Waygo to win the 2013 Echelon award. He was also a recent speaker at the 2013 Machine Learning Conference. He is an avid traveler with over 22 countries under his belt and he once ate 10 warheads at the age of 9. Ryan also built one of Asia’s top app store games Wordlands and Quoth . Ryan then built Tabber, an interactive guitar, that has been featured in TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, ABCNews, and MTVHive....

Rolly Seth

Rolly Seth

Rolly is a Program Manager at Microsoft. She has around four years of work experience in diverse fields like design, technology and management. Her interests lie in creative and interdisciplinary research work. She is from the founding batch of the Young India Fellowship Programme (YIFP)– a multi-disciplinary, post graduate program started in 2011 in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania. One of her team projects named ‘viSparsh’, an electronic navigation belt for visually impaired was selected among the top 12 finalists of Asian Innovations Awards 2012 by The Wall Street Journal and was also titled ‘Accenture Innovation Jockeys 2012’ in a country wide contest powered by Yahoo. Her team also developed a wearable prototype (in the form of a t-shirt) for real-time health monitoring for which they won the first runner up prize at Health2.0 Developer’s World Cup 2012 at San Francisco by competing other country winners. Rolly started her career as a Scientist Fellow at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an autonomous body under Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India and had other stints in research organizations like Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Raman Research Institute. She currently lives in Hyderabad- India. Company Site: www.microsoft.com YIFP Link: http://www.youngindiafellowship.com/ Project viSparsh: www.visparsh.blogspot.com...

David Francis

David Francis

David is a contextual marketing evangelist, working to re-engineer the value proposition of one of world’s largest industries: Print Communications. As Head of Blue Star Interactive, David has built the first AR-dedicated division inside one of Australia’s largest print companies, servicing more than 1500 blue-chip brands across extremely diverse vertical markets. A keynote speaker at FujiXerox’s Asian Conference, advising China’s top 200 print companies, David was a leading expert in the printing industry before stumbling across AR in early 2011 and falling head over heels in love with the 8th Mass Media. He has since conceived and produced AR for some of the world’s largest brands and is a regular speaker and panelist at digital marketing innovation events. Part of a tight knit international community of leading practitioners, David continues to build the terminology, best practice and business strategies to intersect and conjoin the AR, Print and Marketing Worlds....