Everyone loves having a turn hitting the huge blow up beach balls at a festival or event before security typically grab and destroy them. Well, this one was a little different and it came with security approval. The HP Photoball consists of one huge blow up ball, a HD camera and a wifi-hub allowing the [...]
Continue reading...29. March 2013
There are 11,412 pay phones in New York City that are almost never used… So Imagine if you could reinvent them into something much more practical, filled with today’s technology? Well, New York City ran a design contest to see what that could be… With design firm, Control Group, winning the challenge with this… Enjoy!
Continue reading...26. March 2013
Here’s a killer ambient piece for the New Museum in NYC, who’ve just hijacked 5,000 pay phones across the city, with each recalling a piece of history from 1993, a time when NYC was undergoing significant change. Just call 1-855-FOR-1993 from any NYC pay phone to hear what was happening on that very block in [...]
Continue reading...21. March 2013
I think it’s getting to that point where Google can release just about any old Chrome Experiment and the internet will love it! And here is another example of something super simple, with a little story telling thrown in, that leverages their Web Speech API to turn speech into text in real time, as part [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2013
The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru, wanted to attract new students for the 2013 school year, so they teamed up with DraftFCB and created the world’s very first water producing billboard for a city that sits in the middle of a desert, with almost no rainfall per year, an area where fresh, [...]
Continue reading...10. March 2013
Something a little bit different, but beautiful all the same, is this art experiment using 15,000 volts going through what looks like plywood, creating some amazing visuals as the electricity erodes the wood, burning root like trails that randomly connect. A very very cool experiment.
Continue reading...7. March 2013
If you’re a golfer, this could become you’re next favourite toy. GAME GOLF is a new connected product set that automatically tracks, maps and records your entire round of golf. Puts you against your mates, the course or the world and lets you share your victories. The concept, which has so far raised over $100,000 [...]
Continue reading...5. March 2013
You know you’ve thought about it before, wondering how to separate the cookies from the cream, maybe because you like it separated, maybe because you don’t like the cream, who knows, we’ve all done it, just not like this…! In a very cool video (viral? how many views do you need for something to be [...]
Continue reading...26. February 2013
A pretty cool stunt from Qualcomm, the guys who’s chipsets power a tonne of the world’s best smartphones, to showcase how everyday life is just better with mobile. So they bought out the ad space on a bus stop, replaced it with a message pointing to a mobile site URL, and waited for people to [...]
Continue reading...27. January 2013
If you like craft, this post if for you. A short film called ‘Malaria’ is perhaps one of the most detailed, original, creative story telling interpretations that I’ve seen in a while, fusing a mix of Origami, Kirigami, Time lapse, Nankin illustration, Comic Books and Western Cinema to create a very cool story of Fabiano, [...]
Continue reading...13. January 2013
January. A time for everyone to either re-cap the previous year or think about the one that’s just started… And with that comes a host of new trends, predictions and highlights of what the year ahead might just look like… This time it’s Soap looking at the top 10 digital trends and predictions for digital [...]
Continue reading...6. January 2013
Part ad. Part installation. Part awesome. This very cool feature demo from Subaru for their ‘EyeSight’ technology (which is basically a collision avoidance system powered by tiny depth sensitive cameras) where they’ve fitted a whole host of mini electric cars with the technology, along with weird but wonderful trigger sounds, and watched the scenario play [...]
Continue reading...17. December 2012
If you remember the Delite-o-Matic vending machine installation a few months back, you’ll probably love this new, experimental sampling installation they’ve just created to get new flavours in peoples hands! So as part of their special research into human/snack behaviour, Fantastic Delites created a human mouse lab experiment to see how far people were willing [...]
Continue reading...14. December 2012
Here it is again, the Google Zeitgeist, summarising the years most popular searches in a great video round-up. So what featured this year? Well Red Bull did pretty well as always, but they really smashed it this year, becoming the opening and closing pieces of content. Meanwhile, just about everything you’d expect made it in, [...]
Continue reading...5. December 2012
If you’re a Super Mario Fan, you’ll probably love this stop motion piece, in which Super Mario (made out of beads) takes an urban adventure through supermarkets, down busy streets and racing his cart through a bedroom, with the entire film made out of beads… Very very cool. Enjoy!
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1. April 2013
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