This Place are a digital strategy and design agency, designing sustainable digital businesses that work for customers, for shareholders and for society. Driven by purpose as much as profit, they design websites, apps and digital services used by millions of people. Working with clients across the globe from a London hub, they are part agency, part consultancy and true partner This Place was set up by Dusan Hamlin, Ben Aldred and Chloe Kirton in 2013 based on the premise that user experience and design would be increasingly important for businesses to succeed in the future.

MindRDR

This Place is known for creating the

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

project MindRDR, a

Google Glass Google Glass, or simply Glass, is a discontinued brand of smart glasses developed by Google's X Development (formerly Google X), with a mission of producing a ubiquitous computer. Google Glass displays information to the wearer using a head-u ...

and

EEG Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The bio signals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in the neoc ...

device based remote control interface. MindRDR connects Google Glass with a device to monitor brain activity, allowing users to take pictures and socialise them on

Twitter Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, image ...

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

. The

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

has worked with This Place to further develop the MindRDR.

Acquisition

In April 2017, This Place was acquired by Infoteria, a publicly listed Japanese digital product development company.

Blockchain

The This Place team has previously participated and won

Blockchain The blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of Record (computer science), records (''blocks'') that are securely linked together via Cryptographic hash function, cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of th ...

related hackathons. They invested in unlocking the potential of Blockchain for the masses using user experience and design.

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