Made in Me makes Top 50 Mobile Innovators list

Mobile Entertainment (ME) reports on all the latest news from the mobile content industry and every year they source and pick what they believe to be the most cutting-edge and contemporary names in the UK mobile space. This year we made the list! With the likes of Zeebox and Shazam amongst the others to be chosen it's fair to say we're all pretty bowled over by the news.

Dungeons & Dragons Documentary

There can't be many folk who haven't heard the name even if they never played the game. A new documentary sets out to shed some light on the origins of Dungeons & Dragons, the classic fantasy role-playing game that took the world by storm and spawned an entire genre of games in the process. As you'd expect, it's quite a story...

For the full article pop over to the Wired Geekdad blog which is where we spotted it.

It's a SIGN!!!

As Chief Builder I was asked to create "ME" marquee lettering for our meeting room. It took a while as I had to fit it around my day job working on Me Books, but I got there in the end, and I don't mind saying folk seem rather pleased with the results. 

Here is the build in pics:

Cut letter shapes from foamboard and mount them on a wooden frame. Cut side panels from thick card (I backed them with green paper. Green's kind of our colour).

Design circuit. (I didn't actually go with this one, in the end I wired each bulb in parallel).

Wire bulbs in parallel to avoid a 'one goes they all go' Griswold's Christmas moment.

Mount letter shapes to a wooden frame and loosely fit everything together to check it all fits.

With batteries, test, test...

...and test again.

Wire into power source (in this case a 9V inverter plugged into the mains) and... It's alive... ALIVE!!!

Stick it all together. Use of Peppa Pig books optional.

Mount on wall, wire up to power source with some nice white flex and that's the Badger!!!

A Maze of Books

Hands up if you love books and love mazes? Well people, today is your lucky day. Head down to the Southbank Centre in London to experience aMazeme, a wonderful labyrinth of books created by artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo.

The maze contains 250,000 books and is 500 square metres in size.  It is inspired by the work of Argentinian poet and author Jorge Borges, and its design is based on his fingerprint.

Fear not book lovers - none of the tomes will go to waste, all 250,000 titles will be donated to Oxfam when the project ends. Showing until August 26th this wonderufl experience is not to be missed. For more info, visit festival.london2012.com.

Digital Kids at The School of Life

The School of Life has partnered with Mumsnet to run a series of events designed especially for parents. Each one is a short talk and discussion on various aspects of parenting in the modrn world. Writer, journalist and all round top clever bloke Tom Chatfield is leading the session and so we're booked in already! In addition to writing for the Guardian and Wired he has written several books on digital culture including Fun Inc. a brilliant brief history of the games industry.

The School of Life is a delightfully curious enterprise based out of a small shop in central London where they organise all kinds of interesting lectures on 'how to live well'. Sure it sounds a bit kooky but hey, there's nothing better than a generous slice of kook every now and then. These talks are kept deliberately small meaning there are only 25 tickets available... well 23 now.

Find out more about Digital Kids and book tickets