Starter for 6 participants
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Alan Cahoon
Vetpulse.tv
Vetpulse.tv is an online video podcast that covers the latest advances in veterinary research, pharmaceuticals and technology and is of use and interest to a global audience of veterinary professionals.
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Alex Feechan
Plora
Plora's product range sees beautiful, handcrafted knitted textiles developed into products for fashion and interiors. Inspired by the beauty of the Scottish landscape, all products are made in Scotland using the finest geelong lambswool.
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Alice Palmer
Alice Palmer
Alice Palmer designs knitwear that explores unconventional methods of construction, allowing a three dimensional form. Her garments are inspired by the beautifully sculpted architecture of Marrakesh.
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Alison Macleod
Tiger Textiles
Alison Macleod is a textile designer/artist based in the Isle of Lewis. Alison's designs are created using a variety of techniques, such as screen printing, stitch, CAD, digital printing, collage, drawing and painting. Her work is mainly inspired by the history of the Hebrides, surrounding colours, and the Gaelic language.
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Allan MacIntyre and John O'Leary
BlueGreen&Co
BlueGreen&Co. is a community business specialising in the design and manufacture of beautiful, sustainable furniture. The furniture is made from reclaimed materials otherwise destined for landfill.
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Allan Ruddiman and Claire Wishart
CV Demon
Allan Ruddiman and Claire Wishart are developing an innovative CV-building and job-searching website, which will go live in late autumn 2008.
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Amanda Ishaq
Mamma Fashionista
Mamma Fashionista provides stylish, versatile and functional maternity and breastfeeding wear for fashionistas who don’t want to compromise their style when pregnant or nursing.
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Amanda Jones
Red Button Design
Red Button Design, founded by James Brown, Amanda Jones and Nicky Pang, is an internationally award-winning Design House focussing exclusively on products for the humanitarian markets. Their flagship product is a water transport, sanitation and storage device for the developing world.
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Amanda Swanne
Dotty Rhino
Dotty Rhino aims to educate and inspire children by highlighting the importance of wildlife preservation. Via interactive lessons, online content and illustrated books, Dotty Rhino links a rhino sanctuary in Tanzania to primary schools across the UK, allowing children, teachers and parents to explore relevant conservation issues in a progressive and imaginative way.
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Andrew Thomson
Sign-now.com
Sign-now.com has developed a web-based video conferencing system, which allows deaf and able-hearing people to communicate efficiently online. It is the only technology company managed solely by deaf people in the UK. As Sign-now.com is web-based, there is no need to download software or install specialised hardware.
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Angela Gray and Geraldine Green
Greene Jam Studios
Greene Jam Studios is a silkscreen printing studio that specialises in environmentally-friendly production methods. Its first product range to be launched is ‘Jambalicious’, a kidswear range using organic fabrics and green printed designs.
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Angela Searle and Emma Creighton
Extravagant Underground
Extravagant Underground is an eco fashion label specialising in corsetry and headpieces. The garments are inspired by a fusion of street fashion, theatrical dress and customisation of existing garments. It aims to replace eco fashion’s rustic, bland stereotype, with a sense of decadence and refinement.
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Angharad McLaren
Angharad McLaren
Angharad McLaren designs and makes limited edition woven textile products using environmentally friendly materials and ethical production methods. Traditional techniques are combined with the latest technology and materials to create fresh, modern, functional designs. A consultancy and small batch production service is also offered to other fashion, interiors and sportswear companies.
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Angie Hickson
ISANA
ISANA creates contemporary designs inspired by Asia. Combining intricate patterns with beautiful packaging the ISANA range provides a perfect gift, including products for the home and fashion accessories.
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Anna Metzler-Murray
HINTERLANDscotland
HINTERLANDscotland.co.uk is a Scottish company on a journey from green to colourful. They design and create clothing, accessories, toys and gifts, all of which reflect the beauty of the Scottish highlands. Each product is made in an ethical and environmentally-friendly way.
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Anna Stride and Claire Anderson
Pageant
Pageant is a creative studio/boutique in Edinburgh operating in art, fashion and communication. It acts as a breeding ground for revolutionary design, art and music, where people in Scotland can discover up-and-coming talent without heading south.
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Anna-Maija Rist
Graphic Babbling Ltd
Graphic Babbling Limited offers painting and colour workshops for babies and toddlers, starting with observation work and progressing to active artworks. They promote a child-orientated approach to early art education and encourage parent-child bonding through creative activities.
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Barry Esson and Bryony McIntyre
Arika
Arika curate and produce festivals, events and tours bringing the most exciting experimental music, sound, film and visual art to diverse and enthusiastic audiences.
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Ben McNeill
FilmLive!
FilmLive! is a creative community that aims to connect, inspire, and educate emerging and established filmmakers by providing them with practical opportunities, and a platform to showcase their creative talents.
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Beverley Gove
The Fit Zoneâ„¢
Beverley Gove, a fitness instructor from Aberdeen, has developed a new fitness concept – The Fit Zone™. This fun new piece of equipment has various exercise programmes suitable for adults and children. It is easily stored and can be used at home, in the gym and outdoors. It is also being developed for aquatic use.
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Brian Carlin
RESQROLL
Emergency Extrication System aimed at casualties who have life threatening injuries & potential spinal injury, RESQROLL immobilises the spine and allows rapid removal of a victim from a vehicle after a Road Traffic Collision or confined spaces. This will also help reduce time at scene for victims who require life saving surgery.
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Brian O'Reilly
TreeGreen
TreeGreen provides energy-intelligent solutions to the public, through appliances that respond to the user’s unique needs and environment.
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Campbell Semple
Standalone Power Ltd
The technical design and aerodynamics of Campbell Semple's wind turbine, which operates on a vertical axis, has numerous applications in the rapidly evolving green power market.
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Cath Brown
Solo Equestrian
Keen rider Cath Brown has created a range of equestrian equipment primarily for people who handle horses alone. Her first product, Solo Harness, makes it easier and safer for someone to single-handedly load and secure a horse into a trailer.
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Catherine Gladwin
Jordon Shaw Ltd
Designers and producers of fire safety equipment. Hob Angel, for example, aims to reduce the number of hob-related fires, particularly chip pan fires.
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Chloe Highmore
Petit Pea
Petit Pea produces original, design-led babywear using organic cotton and knitwear made in Scotland.
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Chris Findlay
Photomatic Solutions
Chris Findlay has created Photomatic Solutions, an automated web-based service to help photographers quickly and easily identify who is in each of their photographs. It is expected to be of particular benefit when tracking down an individual captured as part of a group event, such as a marathon. Traditionally, this involves manual indexing. Chris's solution saves time and administrative work for professional photographers.
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Christie Alexander
Christie Alexander
Christie Alexander produces knitwear for those who love wearable, luxurious fashion. The fine knit silk garments are dyed by hand and layered with pure woollen pieces to create a versatile look. Each item is carefully finished by hand in Scotland, ensuring a high-quality result.
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Claire Scully and Susie Wright
Sanctuary of Wilderness
Sanctuary of Wilderness is an illustration-led design studio providing specialist art direction, editorial design, exhibitions and installations. The company designs and produces all its bespoke products and limited edition prints from its London studio.
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Daniel Woodford
Aesthetic lighting for plants that can also be used as supplementary light for plant growth. The design also allows people to enjoy plants in a new and novel way.
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Darren Wilson
Darren Wilson
Darren Wilson designs and creates unique and inspiring products based on eco-design principles, and the interactions between man and nature. He uses recycled and ethical materials, including plant seeds and growing matter, to create products that encourage learning, interaction and create a tangible link between user, product and nature.
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David Kettles
Blast Design
A family-run explosives engineering business, specialising in pioneering uses of explosives. This includes Blast Art - a sculpture range, formed using explosives and explosive welding.
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David Muir
Umbrella Media
David Muir is developing an internet TV channel, Sportsfilms, to play 100 hours of sports documentary and movie content to a worldwide audience. An established documentary and feature film-maker, David aims to provide innovative, niche content to attract an audience size, which will prove appealing to advertisers.
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Dawn McKaig and Jennifer Wagner
Prosperic
Prosperic provides online and face-to-face business networking and training solutions. Training academy “Let’s Train Business” and virtual networking facility “Let’s Talk Business”, focus on developing soft skills to business clients, while giving them the opportunity to network in a structured manner at a time that suits.
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Dean Brown
mrdeanbrown.co.uk
Dean Brown is a product designer focusing on the relationship between people and technology. His work aims to use technology to create simple, playful digital products for the home.
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Debbie Burns
Craft Trails
Craft Trails is a one-stop online shop for unique Scottish crafts, inspired by Scotland's stunning rural and coastal landscapes.
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Devon Walshe
The Journal
The Journal is a free fortnightly newspaper targeting all students and graduates studying, working and living in Edinburgh. Established in 2007 by Scotland's leading young journalists, The Journal is distributed to Edinburgh's five higher education institutions, it offers a reliable opportunity for businesses to communicate with a hard-to-reach market.
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Duncan MacKenzie
Duncan MacKenzie is developing an online portal to make it easier for people to make climate-friendly travel arrangements. His service aims to take the hassle out of arranging journeys, ensuring environmentally-friendly travel is simple, affordable and pleasant.
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Elgar Finlay
Intimate Session Events
Elgar Finlay co-founded Intimate Session Events Ltd to broadcast live music events in real time over the internet. Broadcasts will be in "full screen" and as close to high definition as possible - to enable anyone with broadband to enjoy a live music event.
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Elin Isaksson
Elin Isaksson Glass
Knowledge of Scandinavian and European glass-making techniques has enabled Elin Isaksson to bring architectural glass together with blown installations, lighting and sculpture, creating a whole glass experience.
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Eliza Ballingall
Moody Monday
Moody Monday produces contemporary printed textiles lighting and interior accessories by using a fusion of methods in the designing-making process.
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Emily MacLaren
Green Door Studio
The Green Door Studio is a community analogue recording studio located in Argyle Studios in Glasgow. It offers clients 16 track, 1" tape analogue recording, valve amplifiers, compressors, microphones and other boutique gear including protools, logic, digital options. It also offers after-school workshops for young musicians.
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Emily Reid
Eco Drama
Eco Drama is an educational theatre company delivering fun, interactive shows and workshops to primary schools across Scotland. Using eco-gadgets, music and storytelling while touring in ‘The Magic Van’, a vehicle run on 100% biodiesel made from waste cooking oil, Eco Drama sustains a green ethos while motivating children towards greener, healthier lifestyles.
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Emma Little
ExecSpace
Need to find a meeting room but haven’t the time to phone multiple venues to check that they have the availability and resources to accommodate your company's needs? ExecSpace source and manage all meeting venue requirements, and will respond with suggested venues within 24 hours (Monday to Friday).
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Ersi-Paraskevi Giannoulatou and Paul Williamson
Cut Out And Collect
Cut Out And Collect is an environmentally friendly, limited edition clothing line. It specialises in handmade, recycled and organic clothing, and collaborates with young designers by incorporating their designs into other Cut Out And Collect pieces.
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Fahima Ahmed and Shirley Sampson
ShaplaLily
ShaplaLily designs and creates exquisite evening and occasion wear for women. By combining distinctive Asian elements with western fabrics and techniques it offers a genuine Asian alternative that meets the changing needs of its customers. ShaplaLily garments can be purchased separately or with others to form unique outfits for all occasions.
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Fiona Duff
GoatCoat
GoatCoat is a product and brand concept for design-led, performance outerwear aimed at high-end niche markets. Cashmere is core to the brand, combined in an innovative double-face fabric to create the ultimate crossbreed; a hybrid of luxury, performance and design. Soft, weightless, warm, weather-protected and desirable, the outerwear is a fusion of contrasts and extremes, form and function. The garments are made in Scotland and Mongolia.
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Fiona Jack
hART & SOUL
An interactive gallery destination that will bring art and the environment together. Consisting of an eclectic mix of functional art that utilises the spirit of nature and environmental awareness to create innovative works.
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Fiona Morrice
Cruizer
Cruizer specialises in the creation of technically and specifically designed bicycle seats. The seats are custom designed and form an extensive range that attracts clients of all ages and requirements.
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Fraser Bruce and Sandra Wilson
Pulse: The Stuff of Life
Pulse: The Stuff of Life is an innovative university spin-out service aimed at the scientific community. It offers advice and assistance in using traditional hand skills as well as new technologies, such as rapid prototyping, to create models. Services include model making, workshops and training, and the creation of forms for the practice, communication, and teaching of both science and art.
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Freya Pocklington
Cheeky Beak
Cheeky Beak produces stylish, original, eco-friendly greetings cards designed by a professional artist. The website includes stories linking to the cards, and the business aim is to be as environmentally friendly as possible.
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Gabriel Ortiz
nothingGrinder
Gabriel Ortiz has co-founded web design company, nothingGrinder, offering e-commerce and easy-to-use content management systems designed with clients, for clients. Using designers and developers from New York, Edinburgh and Tokyo, nothingGrinder aims to be a full-service solution for new media marketing strategy.
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Geraldine Abrahams
TWM
TWM’s primary product is an innovative multifunctional baby support device designed for babies aged 0 - 6 months. It is the first of several products aimed at improving the health and development of infants.
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Graham Hercus
Sat Nav Scotland
Sat Nav Scotland provide GPS tours of the Loch Ness area. Allowing customers access to a cost-effective method of tour guiding.
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Graham Kerr
Graham Kerr
Graham Kerr's unique concept - an inflated shoe tree - is also an advertising tool for retailers in the sports shoe market.
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Grant McWhirter
YRock Ltd
YRock aims to provide young musicians with a network, resources and access to the wider music industry at an early age. YRock also provides events for young people to develop their talents and musical ability.
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Hannah Clinch
Radius Glasgow
Hannah Clinch is launching the brand Dear Green Place. Her first product is a Green Map for Glasgow, which helps people locate green services, such as charity shops and recycling points, as well as promoting awareness of sustainable development. She plans to extend the brand with eco-friendly products such as reusable bags. With the first Green Map due for publication in July 2007, Hannah is now working on launching an online version.
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Heidi Proven
Heidi Proven
Heidi Proven has created an online social network that allows friends to share recommendations and updates while out and about. Accessed across mobile and wireless devices, the network uses photos and texts to create a mini blog that keeps friends up to date.
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Helen Greensmith and Rienelle Millar
Button Dolly
Button Dolly is a fashion and accessories label that creates unique and unpredictable designs from personally selected, recycled textiles. Each hand-made piece has a bespoke quality, telling a story of past and present, and creating a patchwork of memories and secrets.
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Helen Webster and Paul Webster
Walkhighlands
Walkhighlands provides reliable route information for walkers in the Scottish Highlands. Each walk has a detailed description, beautiful photographs, Ordnance Survey mapping and waymarks for your GPS.
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Henrietta Mackay-Ludgate
Ludgate
Ludgate country wear and accessories incorporate both modern and traditional Scottish tailoring. Quality is paramount and Ludgate approves only the finest of Scottish materials. It is influenced by a mythical departed era of quintessential lairds and exotic and elegant ladies.
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Hieu Hoang
Factored-Translation
Factored-Translation aims to create products and services that will make translation easy, fun and indispensable. Hieu foresees a future where Factored-Translation will be as widely used as mobile phones, laptops and GPS receivers.
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Idong Usoro
Evenchure
Evenchure has developed a website that provides interactive data, knowledge services, and tools to support event managers. It will help them to deliver, promote and evaluate events more effectively and efficiently. The site also provides access to matchmaking within supplier industries/networks, and a platform for professional and social networking around events.
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Iona Crawford
Iona Crawford
A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, Iona’s vision is to modernise and challenge the way Scottish fabrics such as cashmere, pure new wool and leather, are viewed by consumers. She aims to achieve this through the design and creation of innovative, unique and immaculately constructed garments.
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Isabelle Moore
Instead Design
Isabelle Moore designers and produces ergonomic, computer-operated chairs with integrated peripherals.
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Jack Coghill
Shortwaves
Jack Coghill founded Shortwaves to create customised music and audio post-production for Scotland's expanding broadcast industry. The business has created the music and worked on the sound for several broadcasted television programmes and animations. Shortwaves has also produced music for a number computer games.
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James Neilson
DAE
DAE is a one-stop audio production service to meet today’s ever-changing music market. It combines online, real-time music mixing and mastering services, with the transfer, archiving and restoration of analogue mediums to digital formats. This range of services makes DAE Scotland’s first all-in-one digital audio solution.
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Jamie Bryan
TAG Games Ltd
TAG Games are a small and dynamic group of game developers brought together by a strong desire to make a difference in the mobile games market. In a market starved of originality and innovation TAG Games aims to change the mobile game players diet of safe but dull mobile games to one of groundbreaking and exciting content that is based on two fundamental questions: "What's new?" and "What if?"
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Jamie Grieg
Wingboards Ltd
Wingboards Ltd is an extreme sports design company, pushing the boundaries of extreme board sport design. Its market entry product is a 'Wakeboard with Wings'. This aerofoil-shaped board generates additional lift force when being pulled behind a boat or kite, and allows riders to experience increased airtime.
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Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford Designs
Johanna Basford creates bespoke and limited edition wallpapers, fabrics and surface accessories from her Scottish studio. All designs are drawn by hand and traditionally silk screen printed to create unique pieces for distinctive interiors.
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Judy Clark
Judy Clark
Judy Clark’s online bespoke boutique is aimed at individuals who are captivated by having an avant-garde selection in their wardrobe. The boutique retails elegant and timeless garments that are made and designed in the Scottish Highlands.
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Julian Angus
Oldkitchen
Oldkitchen is dedicated to creating contemporary furniture and homewares from recycled materials. Specialising in chipboard with durable synthetic surfaces, the product range of is both eye-catching and functional. Oldkitchen products are also sourced, manufactured and sold as locally as possible.
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Kevin Fox and Lawrence Broadley
Latitude 56 Degrees
Latitude 56 Degrees Ltd (LAT56°) commercialises innovative products for the adventure sports market. LAT56° has patented the Rat-Pak, a portable suit carrier that meets the expectations of urban adventurers, ranging from cycling commuters to business travellers.
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Kevin Robson
Kevin Robson is improving the system currently used to produce carbonated soft drinks. He hopes the idea will reduce customer complaints and increase profitability for those who use the modification.
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Kirsty Franey
Kirsty Franey
Using a unique and quirky mix of colour, fabric and print, Kirsty Franey has created an innovative fashion label, carefully designed for the style conscious consumer who appreciates high quality and sophisticated individuality.
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Kruti Varma and Libu Mathew Varghese
A design studio specialising in printed textiles/wallpapers and ceramics, catering to individual customers, architects and interior designers. Creating products that utilise recyclable materials, such as ceramic and textile waste, and use eco-friendly production techniques. Designs are traditional but eclectic, servicing a growing niche market of environmental-friendly products.
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Lesley Anderson
A2Z Animation
Using simple animation techniques to engage children and young people with literacy issues, Lesley Anderson aims to make them engage and interact in learning in a new and exciting way.
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Lisa Mann
Lisa Mann
Lisa Mann’s designs consider how surfaces can be created through manipulation and experimentation. Creating textures through vacuum forming neoprene rubber, her multi-purpose pieces of fabric can be transformed into garments, placemats, oven gloves, soundproof wallpaper and many other items.
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Louise Davidson
PICDEX
PICDEX is a picture coding system, which acts as an alternative to remembering passwords and pin numbers. Helping anyone with a special need, disability or purely to take the stress out of memorising passwords and pins.
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Louise Elliot
PINpoint
PINpoint is an online information centre providing voluntary sector organisations with up-to-date information on effective internal and external communications; an online directory of charity-friendly creative and ICT services; and a platform to promote campaigns and events.
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Lyle McCance
Board Stupid
Board Stupid specialises in designing and making one-off furniture commissions using Scottish hardwoods and old reclaimed materials, such as old floorboards, slate and felt. The result is a unique, hand-crafted and environmentally-sound piece of furniture. Products range from chopping boards to dining tables.
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Madevi Dailly
Sproutling Ltd
Sproutling is developing an innovative online platform for collaborative community-based design.
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Malcolm Montgomery
Zammas Productions
Zammas Productions is committed to providing entertaining and educational material for young children. Making learning an enjoyable experience through the medium of publishing, DVD and broadcast television.
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Malcolm Taylor
Taylor Innovation Ltd
Taylor Innovation Ltd. has developed the unique new golf-training station, stance coach™, which indicates correct stance positions using an intelligent mat lighting system. With its user-friendly design, stance coach™ assists golfers of all ages and abilities to gain a better stance and swing, helping them improve their game and have more fun.
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Martin Izod and Philip Ross
Safehinge Ltd
SafeHinge Ltd is a company which aims to improve the safety and functionality of doors in both public and private buildings. The patented hinge transforms the way in which doors open and close and could prevent the 30,000 door-related injuries which children suffer annually in the UK at a cost of over £200 million to the NHS.
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Maureen Finn
Finn Associates
User-centred interactive software for learning environments including museums, visitor centres and public-facing organisations. The product engages with users through one of four pre-selected learning styles, ensuring that information is absorbed and retained.
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Mel Woods and Rosalind Henderson
Ambaba LLP
Ambaba has a vision that combines an ethical philosophy with innovation in sustainable design. The launch product is a one-size, re-usable nappy that excels in performance by addressing fundamental ecological and functionality problems, and challenges customer perceptions of re-usable nappies with a contemporary design aesthetic.
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Mhairi McNicol
bebaroque
Mhairi McNicol and Chloe Patience have developed bebaroque, an edgy Scottish label that is fast making its name as the new aesthetic trend in hosiery. bebaroque derives intricate drawing skills teamed with elaborate embroidery. Incorporating line, placement and colour these highly exclusive products epitomize the feminine yet bold and desirable look of today.
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Michael Romilly
Waracle
Waracle is a technology start-up based in Dundee. It is passionate about creating innovative web-based software applications for the rapidly growing online gaming industry.
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Nancy Creaney
Spurtle
Spurtle is a small, luxury knitwear brand that combines contemporary design and styling with the natural luxury of the finest Scottish cashmere. With a strong emphasis on colour, pattern, and structure, these luxury items are produced entirely in Scotland and aim to bring cashmere knitwear to a younger market.
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Nick Forrest
Nick Forrest Associates Ltd
Nick Forrest is developing a remote surveying service to identify all viable sites for micro-hydro electricity generation within a catchment. It is the only system of its kind in the world, and the only remote way to assess a region's real potential for micro-hydro.
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Nicola Hillhouse
Nicola Hillhouse
Nicola Hillhouse has developed an online video aggregation system, which will provide easier access to content, and promote better understanding and collaboration between a variety of disciplines.
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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan is developing an innovative moving image education project. An established BAFTA nominated film producer, Paul has previously set up numerous training and exhibition projects for new filmmakers across the UK, and has produced films and projects for Channel 4 and the BBC.
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Paula Thompson
Paula Thompson
Innovative Architectural Glass. Working with architects and interior designers or to private commission, Paula Thompson pushes the boundaries of architectural glass. Her work responds to and enriches its location. She uses cutting-edge techniques together with traditional forms of glass treatment, and has developed projects with leading architects in the UK and abroad.
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Philip Murphy
Eazi-Grip
Philip Murphy's ergonomic tool, aid and assistive device, Eazi-Grip, has been designed to overcome difficulties encountered by those with rheumatoid arthritis. It assists those with grip difficulties to independently manage areas of personal care.
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Poppy Potter
Gym Kit Co
Gym Kit Co provides creative solutions to environmental challenges in the sports and leisure industry, by allowing gym members to increase their fitness without increasing their carbon footprint.
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Rachel Smith
Rise2Red
Rise2Red is a professional music facility in Inverness. Its services include Rehearsals, Recording, Music Production Tuition and Live Showcases. Rise2Red provides the best equipment at affordable rates.
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Rangi Jericevich
Nofiasco
Nofiasco is an internet venture providing a free service that allows people to create a personalised internet homepage. Bringing together the latest information from many of its favourite websites - BBC, Facebook, YouTube, etc - a Nofiasco homepage provides a useful and time saving starting point to your online world.
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Richard Day
Highland Biosciences Ltd
Highland Biosciences is a new company that is developing the next generation of technologies for use in medical diagnostic products. It will provide research services, consultancy and the rights to use a proprietary novel liquid sensor platform to medical device manufacturers.
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Robert Farrell and Stephen Hurrel
RRELL
RRELL is developing light-based products that combine solar cells and LED lighting together with programming and light-transmitting materials. These products are for a domestic market initially and will function indoors and outdoors.
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Roddy Mathieson
Alchemy, The Mobile Foundry
Sculptor Roddy Mathieson's passion lies in bronze casting and creating public art works. He has established his own "Mobile Foundry" using a mixture of modern and traditional techniques to create contemporary works. Touring the country, he delivers hands-on educational workshops, where the public design, cast and take home their own artworks.
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Sai Anusha Sekar
RG Technology Solutions
RG Technology Solutions uses a combination of technology and customer requirement to deliver innovative smart cards (pocket-sized cards with embedded, integrated circuits) and readers, using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The company’s primary markets are the transportation, healthcare and education sectors.
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Sally Beattie
Lazy Day Foods
Lazy Day Foods are specialist producers of hand-made, high-quality biscuits and tray bakes. Innovative product development has led to the creation of a full range of indulgent products, which are all gluten, wheat, dairy and egg free, making them suitable for a vegan diet. Products include millionaire's shortbread, Belgian dark chocolate tiffin and Scottish shortbread.
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Sarah Hood and Alan Macpherson
Tracesport Ltd
Tracesport is a premium sports resource website providing sports information, news, events, results and directories. The website aims to increase the awareness of sporting achievements at all levels, and to improve sports participation through a unique information provision service.
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Sarah Kettley
TansleyShakeshaft
TansleyShakeshaft is a craft and interaction design studio offering user-focussed concept development, market understanding and product evaluation. Its products include HUG, an interactive textile sculpture for children and the interiors markets.
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Scott Garcia
Scott Garcia Designs
Scott Garcia creates thought-provoking, limited edition, contemporary furniture. His provocative process chair, for example, has one leg resembling the tree trunk from which it came - reconnecting consumers with the processes used to create everyday objects. A former 100% Young Designer of the Year, Scott's work has been exhibited widely, including at Brazen Studios in Glasgow, as part of the Six Cities Design Festival, and in the prestigious Furnish (Furniture for the 21st Century) book.
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Scott Jarvie
Jarvie-Design
Based in Glasgow, Jarvie-Design is a multi-disciplinary design consultancy that engages in 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional projects. In addition to designing for mass production, Jarvie-Design conduct design, empirical, and technological research to increase understanding and generate intellectual property.
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Sebastien Chastin
Physio Today
Physio Today is the world's largest clinical resources website for professional physiotherapists. It is built by its users for its users.
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Stefanos Pavlakis
Travel Design
Stefanos Pavlakis is creating a simple, comfortable unit to spare travellers the agony of exhausting nights on the floor. The unit will be available for sale at airports. His company, Travel Design, is developing a product that is intended to be smart and lightweight enough for people to take with them as they continue their journey.
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Sue Doran
Look Out Scout!
Look Out Scout produces organic childrenswear, featuring the wildlife of Great Britain and Ireland. Conveying the magic of the natural world through colourful wildlife imagery, Look Out Scout! uses an interactive website and fun labelling, with an educational emphasis.
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Susie Brown
Susiemaroon
Susiemaroon is a creative company, specialising in the design and production of ecological accessories for you and your home. Combining ethical-making techniques with high-quality recycled and green materials, Susiemaroon strives to achieve a new kind of cutting-edge sustainable style. The Susiemaroon designs range from cards and accessories through to modesty screens.
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Tanya Ewing
EWGECO
EWGECO is a utility-monitoring device, which will show any user of electricity, gas and water their actual use of each utility in real time. It will calculate the carbon footprint of their building or home.
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Tim Willis
Flexpansion
Flexpansion (Flexible Text Expansion) software speeds up text input on handheld and full-sized devices by converting abbreviated type into full English text. Originally targeted at people with motor disabilities, Flexpansion is based on Tim’s PhD research on how people abbreviate, and ways reduced input can be automatically expanded. Flexpansion will work on smartphones, PDAs, and computers, in a variety of languages.
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Tom Griffiths and Rob Jones
Groopit Ltd
Groopit.com is a website that makes it easy for existing groups of friends to arrange a get-together, using the web and SMS. Afterwards, they can share photos and banter about the event. Its mission is to strengthen existing friendships by encouraging meaningful and memorable face-to-face contact for groups of any kind, everywhere.
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Tony Dale
TAD
TAD is a data input device, designed to aid people when texting on mobile phones or touch screen devices. It aims to solve problems associated with keypads and buttons being designed ever-smaller by mobile manufacturers.
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William Lewis
DOCdpt.com
DOCdpt.com is a collaborative, technical authoring service, which increases productivity and reduces documentation costs. It offers a complete authoring environment with integrated project management and reporting tools. DOCdpt.com uses DITA/xml standards to produce a platform-independent environment accessed through a web browser, for simple implementation and scalability.
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Willie White
SYS Golf Ltd
The SYS Golf Ltd PowerArc training aid allows golfers of all abilities to develop maximum power and their ability to shape shots. Building on a solid set up and swing fundamentals currently coached for the modern golf game, the trainer needs no special tools and uses the golfers own equipment.
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Yann Seznec
The Loop Machine
The Loop Machine is creative music software for the Nintendo Wii, allowing you to mix, produce, and create music by moving around. Released for free in 2007, it was an internet phenomenon around the world. A commercial Mac version has now been developed, with the production of a Wii console version due at the end of 2008.