Small but perfectly formed piece in todays Times Higher Supplement
I do wish they would cite the whole team, but all news is good for WTT
Walking Through Time was featured as a full page news story in the Scottish national newspaper The Sunday Herald. On page 5 too!
check out the online version here:
it seems to have captured the publics imagination.
Published on 3 Jan 2010
“Time travelling used to be an expensive, clumsy business.
According to TV shows and films such as Dr Who and Back To The Future, would-be explorers of the fourth dimension need at least 1.21 gigawatts or a large blue police box to get anywhere. But a new iPhone application developed in Scotland could simplify the whole process.
Walking Through Time is a new app created by academics at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA). It applies the satnav technology used by Google Earth, but instead of pinpointing where the user is on a current map, it shows where they would have stood two centuries ago.”
We’re beginning to get some external interest so we thought we’d better make a more public site!
here it is, small but beautifully formed: