Wallace & Gromit present - A World of Cracking Ideas

The Intellectual Property Office, Aardman Animations and SGA are excited to announce that the “Wallace and Gromit Present: a World of Cracking Ideas” is relocating to the Glasgow Science Centre.

The exhibition which opens on Friday 2 April 2010 will be in residence until 30 November 2010 and will once again feature Wallace and Gromit presenting a host of innovations that have contributed to our everyday lives.

The exhibition aims to inspire and encourage visitors to become innovative and creative in their own lives by taking inspiration from other well known innovators who have used their own experiences to create the life changing products and brands featured in the exhibition.

Glasgow Science Centre is one of Scotland’s must see visitor attractions – presenting concepts of science and technology in unique and inspiring ways. For information on how to book tickets to the exhibition go to http://www.crackingideas.com/exhibition

“Wallace & Gromit Presents: A World of Cracking Ideas”, originally running at the Science Museum in London, has now closed. If you were one of the 186,000 visitors who attended the exhibition, thank you!

Picture credit: Justin Sutcliffe

If not, don’t worry the exhibition will be moving to another venue, the location of which will be announced shortly.

Watch this space for further announcements!

If you still want to get involved then why not enter the Cracking Ideas competition? All you need to do is use your creative skills to come up with Wallace and Gromit’s next business venture.

For more information on the competition, how to enter and the fantastic prizes on offer go to www.crackingideas.com/competition

The Intellectual Property Office buries time capsule to celebrate 85,000 ‘cracking ideas’ from Britain’s budding young innovators

85,000 young innovators submitted ideas to The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) after visiting the Wallace & Gromit Present a World of Cracking Ideas exhibition at The Science Museum, which is sponsored by the IPO. Children were asked to come up with ‘cracking ideas’ they’d like to see in the future, and results included robot postmen, underwater transport and power generating footwear.

The capsule has now been buried in the grounds of the Intellectual Property Office in Newport where it will be re-opened in 2020 to discover which of the inventions have made it in to reality.

Some of the ideas to be buried include:

‘Billy the Cook’, the creative genius of Robert Unsworth, aged 13 from, Lancashire. This robot chef complete with feet made of recycled tin cans and arms composed of disposable stacking cups will prepare any dish on demand.

Ieuan Cooke, aged 10, from South Wales, thinks his Ieuan Dryer could be the answer to early morning laziness in the future. The machine saves on towels by drying your post bath body in a cubicle through which hot air circulates.

‘The Deep Diver’ by Tyona Higgins, aged 11 from Tyne and Wear, is the underwater means to get from A to B of the future. Complete with super-vision lights, a specially developed flotation device and a password activated navigation system could it be a common mode of transport in 2020?

Budding innovators can visit Wallace & Gromit Present A World of Cracking Ideas at the Science Museum until Sunday 1 November and see inside 62 West Wallaby Street, the famous home of Wallace & Gromit, whilst interacting with some of Wallace’s own cracking contraptions such as the Tellyscope II, the Piella Propellor and the Blend-o-Matic.

To read a review of the event from CBBC Newsround Press Packer, Priyanka, visit the CBBC website!

Why not take advantage of the current offer of 2 for 1 entry to the exhibition. Just download the voucher from the Science Museum website and take it with you when you visit.

At the Science Museum, London, Wallace and Gromit will guide you through the world of innovation to discover how simple ideas can transform into life changing products and how intellectual property impacts on our everyday lives.

Visitors to the exhibition and the website will have the opportunity to learn:

* Everyone can innovate
* Creativity has value
* Innovators own their ideas
* Ownership should be respected
* Innovation and creativity can be linked to financial reward
* Ideas can be exploited if protected by intellectual property rights
* Innovation is exciting, being creative is fun, being enterprising is exhilarating

Wallace and Gromit Present a World of Cracking Ideas runs from 28 March - 1 November 2009.

More information can be found on the Science Museum website.

On 28 March 2009 the ‘Wallace and Gromit present A World of Cracking Ideas’ exhibition opened to the public at the Science Museum and will run until Sunday 1st November. Presented by Aardman Animations, produced by SGA and sponsored by the Intellectual Property Office the experience is designed to inspire a new generation of innovators in the UK and beyond.

Several well-known figures attended the launch including Nick Park, the creator of Wallace and Gromit and David Lammy, the Minister for Intellectual Property.

Wallace and Gromit will be at the heart of this new interactive, family-orientated experience designed to appeal to a new generation of innovative minds. Visitors will take a tour of Wallace and Gromit’s home, 62 West Wallaby Street and interact with all kinds of exhibits along with some of Wallace and Gromit’s famous creations such as the Tellyscope II, the Piella Propellor and the Blend-O-Matic.

The exhibition contains innovations past, present and future and aims to stimulate a change in thinking and empower innovation and creativity. From the Kitchen to the Garden Shed, each room will accommodate a different aspect of the thinking process behind ideas. Innovators of all ages will learn how to protect their intellectual property, so that ideas deliver value to their creators as well as the wider world.

Throughout the experience Ideas Stations are located where visitors will be encouraged to jot down their own cracking ideas and upload them to the Eureka Brainwave. These ideas then make their way to Wallace and Gromit and are used to power their brand new invention called the Thinking Cap.

So get cracking and book your trip to the exhibition – call 0870 870 4868 or book online.

CRACKING IDEAS WEBSITE

The Cracking Ideas website has also been updated! This site, brought to you by the Intellectual Property Office contains lots of tips on how to become an innovator along with a brand new competition open to ages 4 – 16, send in your ideas for Wallace and Gromit’s next home business venture and you could win a bespoke Aardman trophy, a laptop, a sketch signed by Nick Park and lots more. Download our activity packs which are specifically designed to encourage creativity and innovation to help you come up with your own unique Cracking Idea.

You can now register and take part in the madcap monthly Eureka challenges and win a prize, by uploading a picture or video of your idea, rate other ideas and win badges for taking part in various activities!

There is also an exciting new Wallace and Gromit game. Can you help Gromit collect the missing pieces across 20 infuriating, fun-filled levels to complete their latest work of genius? If you complete it perfectly, you could get 2 new badges awarded to you! Get cracking!