Working with local company Water Sculptures, Sprocket DC has helped to make a spectacular water feature in Durham.

This weekend Durham hosted the Lumiere Festival 2011 which saw the city being lit up with wonderful creations from a giant snow dome over a city centre monument to interactive curiosities. The star of the show (from our slightly biased perspective) however, was 'Splash' - a misty waterfall off one of the Durham's bridges.

Sprocket DC has been involved with designing the brackets that hold this creation together, securely in place and without damaging the historical bridge on which it was placed.

The effect created was truly spectacular and was certainly a favourite amongst many of the visitors to the festival:

BBC news reported on the success of the event and featured and interview with the artist behind 'Splash': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15809862

We'll be updating our portfolio with a case study and more photos soon...

For more information on Water Sculptures, please visit their website: http://www.watersculptures.co.uk/index.html

On Saturday 13th August, Jenny Roberts and 3 team mates completed their Lands End to John O'Groats cycle trip. Raising over £1400 for Cystic Fibrosis along the way and testing out SmartLife Smart Garments, the trip was not only extremely enjoyable but hugely successful.

From the photos you'll see that we were extremely lucky with the weather - only one day of really heavy rain and even that just made the surroundings of Glen Coe even more spectacular (i.e. lots of waterfalls).

Thanks for all the support and if you'd still like to donate please do so here: http://www.justgiving.com/SmartLife-LEJOG

Sprocket DC teams up with SmartLifeInc to cycle Lands End to John O'Groats wearing SmartVest™ technology

The first two weeks of August will see MD Jenny Roberts and three others cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats wearing SmartLifeInc smart garments. These garments will monitor heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, body position (accelerometer) and GPS location. In the first event of its kind, each participant will test out various garments and their recorded data will then be shared on a specifically constructed website (watch this space for the URL!). Updates to the website each day will allow followers to watch the team's progress and compare physical data (HR, respiration etc.) with route data (route and elevation).

It is hoped that the collected data from this challenge will help us better understand the monitoring of vital health signs and progress the development of the technology for use in diagnosing and monitoring conditions such as Cystic Fibrosis.

For more information on this please follow @SmartLifeLEJOG on Twitter and on the challenge website which will follow soon.

Links:

www.smartlifetech.com

Red Rose Awards 2011

Managing Director, Jenny Roberts, attended the Lancashire Business View Red Rose Awards 2011 in which Sprocket DC was shortlisted for Creative Business of the Year. The evening started with a drinks reception in the Arena followed by a sit down meal and awards presentation in the spectacular Empress Ballroom.

The category of Creative Business of the Year was extremely well represented with prestigious companies and we were honoured to be classed in the same league as them. On the night the award went to a fellow Lancaster based company, and well deserved recipient, Fat Media.

Congratulations to all those shortlisted and in particular the winners from each category - Lancashire really does have a wealth of impressive businesses!

Take that recession!

On Saturday 26th March, Sprocket DC celebrated its 2nd Birthday. The last two years has seen the company grow and go from strength to strength, culminating in an extremely busy work schedule over the past few months and being shortlisted for our first award (Creative Business of the Year - Lancashire Business View Red Rose Awards).

Thank you so much to all those who have supported us and believed in us over the last few years (you know who you are), it's meant an awful lot and we're so proud to be able to say we're doing well.

Here's to the continuing success of Sprocket DC - cheers!