19 July 2007
UK's largest Magic Planet installed at Conkers, Leicestershire
The UK’s largest Magic Planet digital globe has opened at Conkers, the award winning attraction at the heart of the National Forest in
Leicestershire. Full story
21 June 2007
Free “Brain Football” challenge at NASEN and TES Special Needs, London
Stand 69, NASEN and TES Special Needs Exhibition, Business Design Centre, London, 19 - 20 October 2008
Find out how focussed and relaxed you (and your family, friends or students) really are at the NASEN and TES Special Needs Exhibition,
London (19-20 October 2008, stand 69) in the Mindball brain football challenge. Full Story
24 May 2007
Enfield students learn to concentrate with “brain football”
Enfield students and teachers are the first in the world to be using a new brainwave feedback technology called Mindball to improve their
concentration and relaxation skills. Full story.
23 May 2007
Herefordshire company takes new space technology into schools
Schools in Herefordshire and surrounding counties now have access to the latest space exploration imaging technology thanks to Space Today UK,
a new company created by a local teacher and an arts specialist to bring live space, astronomy and global perspectives into the classroom.
Full story.
1 April 2007
What a Sensation! The Magic Planet comes to Dundee
Sensation - the Dundee Science Centre – opened a new exhibition about the solar system based on its new Magic Planet digital globe on
1 April 2007. In the Sensation exhibition visitors are taken on a virtual tour of the solar system in a specially created show,
which explores interesting facts about each planet.
Full story.
12 March 2007
New way to create crowds launched - brain-powered football
A novel way of generating traffic at events has been launched in the UK and Ireland. Called Mindball, it is a neurofeedback ballgame
in which you score goals using just mind-power. It is so attention-grabbing that visitors happily queue to take part.
Full story.
2 March 2007
Go out of this world at City Learning Centres
Education in Stoke-on-Trent is on top of the world after taking delivery of the latest in hi-tech teaching aids.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s two city learning centres are using teaching aids previously only available to major science organisations
such as NASA and the European Space Agency. The digital globes, known as Magic Planets, help children learn about how the Earth functions.
Full story.
13 February 2007
Upminster school is first in world to own new digital globe
The Coopers’ Company & Coborn School in the London Borough of Havering, with a generous donation from its hard working Parents’ Association,
has scored a dramatic world-first with the delivery of a new Magic Planet digital globe, making the School the first in the world to own
the new technology.
Full story.
24 January 2007
New Magic Planet digital globe called to Action Stations in Portsmouth Historic
Visitors to Action Stations’ new £1 million interactive science and technology gallery InterAction at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard are
experiencing an astronaut’s view of the world, without leaving the ground, with the installation of a new Magic Planet digital globe.
Full story.
13 November 2006
Our Dynamic Earth, the visitor attraction in the heart of Edinburgh, has installed a new 61cm (24 inches) diameter Magic Planet.
Full story.
9 November 2006
A new neurofeedback tool that teaches executives, athletes and students how to cope with stress and to perform better in their work,
studies and daily lives is now available in the UK for the first time.
Full story.
2 November 2006
Mindball chills the crowds at the Science Museum, London. Mindball® – a neurofeedback game in which the most relaxed player wins –
is one of the star features in the new exhibition NEURObotics…the future of thinking? at the Science Museum, London, open until 10 April 2007.
Full story.
