If you’ve ever wondered what the weather was like at your next destination while waiting for a flight, well, now you won’t have to with a new installation at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, called “The Climate Portal”. An installation that simulates a range of weather conditions. The installation, created by the guys at Akestam Holst, brings [...]
Continue reading...18. May 2015
Ok, so this video is censored… but it’s also still not exactly safe for work. Insert Reader warning here, but if you can appropriately view this, it’s a very smart native advertising content play for The Blue Ball Foundation, who is trying to raise awareness for testicular cancer. Only with this piece of advertising. It’s [...]
Continue reading...14. April 2015
Incase you don’t know, Twitch is like YouTube, but it is all live-streamed, featuring only multiplayer games for people to watch, with an audience over 50 million strong. Last year, there was the internet phenomenon “Twitch Plays Pokémon” where over 6.5 million people played the game or watched the live-stream. And now, Old Spice thought [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2015
Brilliant. IKEA has just about everything you can imagine, and now, they even offer virtual weddings! All through their new ‘Wedding Online’ service, where users can select from a range of beautiful locations, decorated to the max with IKEA products tapping new trends, before connecting with Facebook, and live-video streaming in their friends and family [...]
Continue reading...22. March 2015
Samsung owned industry sites this week with their ‘LifeLIVE’ event, which claims to be the world’s first Virtual Reality Birth in Australia, where a couple who are based 4,000km’s away from each other, were connected live, for a virtual birthing experience powered by Samsung’s VR Gear headset. Of course this isn’t out of the box, [...]
Continue reading...8. March 2015
Mountain Dew has just launched an aresome VR experience at the Burton US Open. Where they set out to capture a first-of-its-kind backcountry snowboarding experience in Virtual Reality during February 2015, allowing anyone with a Samsung Hear headset, to join the DEW Crew an participate in the backcountry trip! Plus if you’ve got a Samsung [...]
Continue reading...12. February 2015
Add this to the growing list of insightful uses of digital by the airline industry, ANA Airlines and their digital partner firstborn NY announced this week a new consumer engagement app called Take Off Mode. Taking advantage of newly unrestricted use of digital devices during takeoff and landing, the app offers a game experience intended to [...]
Continue reading...27. January 2015
Have you ever wondered who captures that awesome killshot in Call of Duty, well, meet Randall Higgins, he’s a pro, taking every killcam shot in every Call of Duty game ever made. And with the release of the new Havoc maps, the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Randall’s going to have [...]
Continue reading...16. January 2015
Storytelling, storytelling storytelling. If there’s any conventional wisdom within the industry currently, it’s that telling great stories is increasingly at the heart of meaningful consumer engagements. Well, Land Rover, Y&R NYC and Tool of North America are taking that notion, in my opinion, to the next level. They’ve partnered with author William Boyd to bring [...]
Continue reading...11. January 2015
India’s biggest beer, Kingfisher, created the “Beer Coaster” on Oculus Rift where they took fans on the ride of their lives to score a free beer for those whose pulses raced the fastest, with the beer emerging automatically from the Good Times Dispenser during the installation. As brands and agencies around the world experiment with [...]
Continue reading...30. December 2014
Check out the ‘Norwegian Red Cab’ streaming live from NYC. An interactive experience that enables visitors in a shopping mall in Oslo to control a cab, and discover New York City, in Real-time with a NYC tour guide meets cab driver. I guess it’s kind of like Remote Control Tourist in a way. It’s all [...]
Continue reading...8. December 2014
In early 2015, Intel will release to the public, with open access, a new assisted communications platform that will help over 3 million people globally with disabilities, communicate with the world. And today, Intel demonstrated for the first time with Professor Stephen Hawking, that very platform, after spending the last few years together developing the [...]
Continue reading...12. November 2014
Vending machines have taken the advertising world by storm over the last 2 years. They’ve won at every award show on the planet, and taken out some of the most prestigious pieces of metal. So what are our expectations of a vending machine now? Will it use facial recognition to scan our faces for an [...]
Continue reading...21. October 2014
Heineken’s #ShareTheSofa is the world’s first real-time football show designed specifically for the second screen, aired during the Champions League, and aimed at engaging global fans by creating sharable reactions and perfect moments on social channels. Each #ShareTheSofa experience played out over the 90 minute matches featuring football stars hanging out on a sofa with [...]
Continue reading...9. October 2014
Meet Dom, he’s Domino’s new ‘Siri’ Competitor… The only problem is that all he knows is how to order pizza from Dominos. So if you need help cooking, calling friends, searching google .etc He’s not going to be any help. But, if you do want an easy way to order your favourite pizzas from Domino’s… [...]
Continue reading...7. October 2014
If you’ve ever wondered about the future, then you’ll love this from Orange! It’s called #FutureSelf and the campaign site uses some pretty cool tech to allow users to meet, speak and discuss the future 20 years from now! Orange is inviting people to engage in a first of its kind technological journey 20 years [...]
Continue reading...5. October 2014
Coca-Cola has teamed up with Ubisoft on the new ‘Just Dance Now’ mobile game that is sweeping the world, in an integrated content play that sees players scanning Coke cans to unlock special content and activities inside the game. Further pushing the growing trend of native content plays for big global brands into the gaming [...]
Continue reading...26. September 2014
Volvo hasn’t given up on their YouTube content strategy, with this new piece called ‘The Casino’. Although this time, it’s forumla is slightly different, it’s not really the same kind of product demonstration stunt they’ve become famous for showing off, and while adopting a similar feel, it goes a little more traditional. With a hidden [...]
Continue reading...4. September 2014
So, with the iPhone 6 just about to launch, IKEA have taken to the stage to launch their 2015 Catalogue just as if it was the world’s best gadget, in a complete Apple Spoof, filming the explanation of how their catalogue was engineered to perfection… Including classic language like ‘tactile touch technology’, ‘eternal battery life’ [...]
Continue reading...3. September 2014
Meet ‘Heart Bot’ an experimental drawing machine created by Intel, SMS Audio and Sid Lee as a digital art installation for guests at the Intel ‘Biosport’ headphones launch at The New Museum in NYC. Heart Bot is an experimental machine controlled by the heart rate of its audience. Interactive with the experimental drawing machine was [...]
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14. June 2015
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