As Google continues it’s Chrome Experiments, we’ll now be lucky enough to see them in the flesh with a year-long public exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The Chrome Web Lab Installations can be interacted with by anyone, anywhere at at the Chrome Web Lab Site. The Lab is made up of 5 Chrome [...]
Continue reading...26. June 2012
Less of an ad and more of a test, this is the latest recruitment campaign for the Australian Defence Force, called Mobile Medic – and it just won 4x Gold and many more silver/bronze at Cannes Lions 2012. A mobile app that challenges you to diagnose the patient in the ad through the Mobile Medic [...]
Continue reading...18. June 2012
Now this is brilliant. Ford has introduced KeyFree technology into their range of cars, and to showcase this, they have come up with a fantastic app that works much like their KeyFree technology for cars, but for your entire social web of sites… Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Skype .etc Once you install the app on your [...]
Continue reading...16. June 2012
The second-ever Vimeo Awards were held this week over in New York City. The award ceremony showcased the world’s best videos from Vimeo and their creators. The evening was hosted by Reggie Watts and Beardyman, see some highlights in the video above. Listed below is the collection of the winning entires, it’s a fantastic mix [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2012
I’ve seen “pee” challenges before, like the one in Amsterdam we posted a few weeks back, but this takes it to a whole new level… Introducing Guitar Pee Mpee3′s, user-generated MP3 tunes that are created on a highly customised toilet, designed as a makeshift guitar, complete with string-type-elements in the urinal which control a real [...]
Continue reading...10. June 2012
I’m a huge fan of vending machine installations, the last one we posted a week or so back “Rugbeer” was one of my favourites, and this new one from Tourism British Columbia is creating some huge buzz for very different reasons… Perhaps the ultimate vending machine, Tourism British Columbia placed a giant, 14-foot tall, 10-foot [...]
Continue reading...8. June 2012
There have been whispers for a while on this one, but Sean Parker’s new startup venture is now live, it’s called AirTime, and comes complete with a new $25m round of funding to kick it off. So what the hell is AirTime? Well, lets not kid ourselves, it’s like Chat Roulette for Facebook… AirTime aims [...]
Continue reading...6. June 2012
Here’s a LEGO concept from the guys at Wonder Years, called BrainBricks, essentially intelligent LEGO bricks that include tiny sensors, which enable the bricks to sense their configuration with one another and communicate it wirelessly to mobile devices loaded with the LEGO gaming app, in turn allowing physical LEGO models to be instantly brought into [...]
Continue reading...3. June 2012
How annoying is it when you’re using Google Street View only to find you can’t get down that one critical street you needed to? Well, here’s the reason… If the Google Street View Car doesn’t easily fit, they simply don’t got down that road, and forever will that street be inaccessible on Street View. Well, [...]
Continue reading...28. May 2012
Here comes the Nike+ of Golfing, but I wonder if it will have the same effect? The new Nike Golf 360º app lets users track, tune and share their game on the fly. The multi-device app is essentially a performance toolkit designed to help players improve their games, from tracking distances and scoring your games, [...]
Continue reading...25. May 2012
Love tech? You’ll probably think this is cool then, a drawable OSC control panel built with openFrameworks, ofxCv, OSC, and Pure Data. SketchSynth allows you to physically draw your own control buttons, sliders and mixers on a piece of paper, where camera aligned to a projector picks up, process the image and maps them in [...]
Continue reading...30. April 2012
ING sponsors the Basketball league in Germany and wanted to connect their offering to a younger audience at Basketball events across the country… So they aimed to leverage smart phones to create an interactive experience anyone could play, and “Free Throw Billboards” were born. Users could connect their phone directly to the billboard, essentially turning [...]
Continue reading...29. April 2012
Here’s a nice little NFC installation called FloorD, an agency initiative that challenges staff to ditch the elevator and take the stairs in their office with the aim to keep everyone fit and healthy. Created by and for the guys at EHS 4D, a leading digital agency in London, FloorD saw every single staff member [...]
Continue reading...22. April 2012
Chevy Sonic. Tick. Famous Street Artist. Tick. James Bond style transformer spray-paint weaponry setup inside the Chevy Sonic. Tick. What the?! Ok well, this is the Chevy Sonic Street Art Robot Car, created in partnership with Jeff Soto, a renown street artist, to create a world first paint-spraying robot car that can be controlled via [...]
Continue reading...18. April 2012
Now this is a pretty cool concept. Over in Japan, Cogoo, a bicycle sharing service, has created the world’s first device that transforms your bike into a DJ turntable. Check out the stunt above which shows this ‘Turntable Rider’ in action, combining two great elements of street culture, BMX and music. The ‘making of’ video [...]
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3. July 2012
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