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Coca-Cola: Happiness Machine for Couples

23. February 2012

Tweet Pin It For the past Valentine’s day, Coca-Cola has installed special vending machines inside of the most crowded shopping malls in Istanbul. Those machines were designed just for couples and there was one way to get them working: people had to prove they’re indeed a couple. Some of my old mates from C-Section came-up [...]

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ClikThis: Control Any Screen With Your Mobile

23. February 2012

Tweet Pin It If you’ve got a team of devs in your agency, you can already do this pretty easily. But, how can the rest of the world start utilising their mobile to control any screen they have access to? And better yet, what will marketers start to do with this API to bring that [...]

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LED Snowboarding Short Film

20. February 2012

Tweet Pin It I’m wondering if Burton will start bringing out LED laced clothing after this video? Shot by Jacob Sutton, this short film of a glowing man wearing an entire LED suit is pretty cool, probably a tad crazy, but awesome all the same. I can’t see why we won’t be seeing guys night [...]

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Apps: The Future of Agency Revenue Models?

19. February 2012

Tweet Pin It One of the biggest challenges that agencies face is making “more” money… At the end of the day, most agencies sell head hours, head hours of awesomely talented people, and almost all of the world’s biggest and best agencies/networks are built purely around hours, and to me, that’s got to change, because [...]

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Nike: The Film Room Case Study

9. February 2012

Tweet Pin It This is the Nike Film Room, an interactive experience that is part green screen, part basketball court helping to teach kids how to play ball like the pros. Kids watch pro basketball players produce signature moves on the court and then study their actions to make that move, before jumping onto the [...]

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Video: The Future of Digital Displays Part 2

7. February 2012

Tweet Pin It A year ago this week, Corning, the worlds leading high-tech glass manufacturer (who produces Gorilla Glass for hundreds of millions of smart phones) released “A Day Made Of Glass“, a futureistic look at glass technology that racked up almost 20 millions views… Well, this week they are back, with “A Day Made [...]

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Hiriko: MIT’s Folding Car Is Finally A Reality

6. February 2012

Tweet Pin It If you have ever lived in a congested metropolitan area or have driven in circles looking for a parking spot for half an hour, this one is likely to hit home. An MIT concept that has been half a decade in the making is on its way to becoming a viable option [...]

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Video: A Swarm of Nano Quadrocopter Bots

5. February 2012

Tweet Pin It Quadrocopters have to be one of the hottest tech/geek topics right now. There is some serious research going into them from all around the world, with start-ups in Australia using them to film surfing and major sporting events all the way to universities programming them to be automated building bots, creating structures [...]

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Psycho Siri: Perhaps The Best Siri Parody So Far

5. February 2012

Tweet Pin It There are Siri parody videos, and then there is Phyco Siri. Sure, it’s another Parody video, but this one just happens to have some pretty classy visual effects and an interesting storyline, infact it’s more like a short film than your typical 60 second Siri parody. It was launched two days ago, [...]

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Technicolor TV: Personalized Content Rendering

31. January 2012

Tweet Pin It Check out the latest innovation in home theater technology that could put you right inside the Super Bowl without leaving the comfort of your couch. That’s because the folks at Technicolor’s research lab are working to recreate the experience of being at the big game – without actually being at the big [...]

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Project Sk8: Xbox Kinect Controlled Skateboard

15. January 2012

Tweet Pin It We’ve seen some pretty cool Xbox Kinect experiments to date… but I don’t remember seeing an Xbox Kinect Controlled Electric Skateboard, especially one that can hit 32 miles per hour! Chaotic Moon’s LABS program set about rigging up an electric skateboard with a Samsung Windows 8 Tablet and an Xbox Kinect to [...]

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PressPausePlay: The Digital Revolution Film

14. January 2012

Tweet Pin It It’s Saturday, my time to kick back and relax after a crazy week. And today, I’m watching “PressPausePlay” the award winning SXSW film that has been screened at more than 30 film festivals around the globe. It depicts the digital revolution of the last decade, and the way that technology has opened [...]

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WipeOut: Quantum Levitation Racing Game

8. January 2012

Tweet Pin It Ok, this might just be a tad off subject for Digital Buzz, but I’m sure it will excite the inner geek in all of us, whilst providing a little eye candy for the first week of work in 2012. Created by the Japan Institute of Science and Technology, this racing game inspired [...]

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Jell-O: Facial Recognition Sampling Machine

25. December 2011

Tweet Pin It To help launch the new Jell-o Temptations premium desert range for adults, sampling was always on the cards, but this machine takes sampling to a whole new level… It uses facial recognition software to detect the “Age” of the potential consumer, and if you happened to be too young, it would reject [...]

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JWT Augmented Reality Business Cards

18. December 2011

Tweet Pin It Blippar’s image recognition based Augmented Reality platform is getting more and more popular around the world, so JWT have teamed up with them to issue staff with Augmented Reality business cards, and here is the demo video to give you a quick taste! The Blippar image recognition engine reads the graphics on [...]

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