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Nissan: Voice Driver Installation
Voice powered radio controlled car races over the internet? What a seriously cool installation from Nissan using their ‘Z’ Sports Cars. In about 5 days, there will be a Japan GP where people turn up to race with the power of their voice… A week after that, it will be open to the world, with [...]
Continue reading...Dyskograf: Create Music From Drawings
30. October 2012
Seriously cool. The Dyskograf is a graphic disk reader that creates music from drawings, or more precisely, from felt tip pens that draw shapes on paper discs. These discs are read by the Dyskograf’s camera as it spins, while constantly decoding the images via an algorithm/software platform to produce unique notes in real time for [...]
Continue reading...Google Data Center: Street View Experience
29. October 2012
Ever wondered what a Google Data Centre would look like inside? Well, now you can Street View it and explore just about every square inch of one or follow a guided tour. On first glance, I couldn’t exactly get the street view platform to get me into the deepest parts of the data centre with [...]
Continue reading...SlideShare: What Is Digital Strategy?
24. October 2012
It’s interesting to look at how a strategy brain works, more so, the transition of traditional strategists or other agency types who are getting into digital strategy… So, I thought it would be great to share this SlideShare presentation from my mate Julian Cole, who’s the digital strategy director at BBH in New York. The [...]
Continue reading...Ideogenetic Machine: A Comic Book Installation
15. October 2012
A tad weird, but cool all the same… The Ideogenetic Machine is an interactive application that incorporates portraits of participants into an algorithmically generated comic book in real time. The comic is created live through custom software using portraits of participants captured with the installations camera and matches it to a database of drawings by [...]
Continue reading...Redbull: Human Powered Freerunning Machine
15. October 2012
Here’s the latest piece of content from Redbull’s Parkour sponsorship of Jason Paul, this time, they’ve setup what’s been named a ‘Human Powered Freerunning Machine’… Which from my decryption is an engineered environmental dominos setup that sees Jason Paul run through various contraptions to the finish line. The video has racked up 5 million views [...]
Continue reading...L’Oreal: The Next Level XBOX 360 App
9. October 2012
L’Oreal have moved into the console gaming territory with ‘The Next Level’ XBOX 360 App, a personalised world of beauty, style and entertainment delivered right into the Xbox gaming console, complete with a participation based rewards program. The app includes things like a personal stylist, tips, forums, inspiration and even an educational style academy program… [...]
Continue reading...Ibis Hotels: The Sleep Art Robot
2. October 2012
We’ve seen a whole bunch of robots over the last year, most notably the street art robot car from Chevvy Sonic… And now we have the Sleep Art Robot from Ibis Hotels, which transforms your sleeping patterns into physical ones in the form of real art, paint on canvas. The robot uses movement, sound and [...]
Continue reading...Disney: Frankenweeie iPad Book Experience
2. October 2012
This might just create the start of a new trend in rich, iPad based content to accompany new films to market… Disney’s ‘Frankenweeie’ iPad Book Experience creates a hands on, rich, interactive story telling experience to get people excited about the movie, plus it adds in content that is typically left unwatched at the back [...]
Continue reading...The Popinator: Voice Activated Popcorn Machine
25. September 2012
Imagine if you could have hot popcorn perfectly shot into catching distance at the sound of your voice… That might be a weird thought, but hey, lets give it a crack! Introducing the ‘Popinator’ a fully automated, voice activated, popcorn throwing machine that is able to pinpoint where in the room the voice originated from, [...]
Continue reading...Creature Greeter: The Client Check-In App
22. September 2012
Waiting at your agency might never have been so interesting… Creature Greeter is an iPad app that allows anyone who’s waiting in the Creature of London reception to check-in and create a creature before setting it free, all while waiting for the meeting to start, powered by facial recognition matching, which is code for linking [...]
Continue reading...Tweet To Shoot: Social Nurf Gun Wars
19. September 2012
Nurf Gun Wars are pretty big here at VML in Sydney, so we were a tad jealous to see the guys from Nieman Labs beat us to a social controlled Nurf Gun Game converged with an interactive version of the classic Duck Hunt, where Nurf bullets are tracked and scored against the software version of [...]
Continue reading...PSY Gangnam Style: Cult Viral Hits 200M Views
17. September 2012
‘Gangnam Style’ will easily be the biggest viral video of 2012, and this one video has more views (and an equal number of subscribers) than Lady Gaga’s entire YouTube channel combined. PSY is a largely unknown Korean rapper, who some how, has absolutely nailed the content play with a purposely uncool video designed to earn [...]
Continue reading...QR Code Beer Bottles Made for Singles
15. September 2012
Here’s something a little different from a bar in Singapore… A new way for singles to meet at the bar, powered anonymously via QR codes connected to beer bottles! If you can get past the slightly cheesy demo video, you’ll see that customers buy a beer, scan the QR code to get the app and [...]
Continue reading...Topshop: Real Time Catwalk Customisation
14. September 2012
If you’re a bit of a fashionista, you might like this piece from Topshop, who have created a live-streaming customisable catwalk experience for the Topshop Unique SS13 fashion show. It takes a live-stream of the show, and syncs it to the website that delivers a real-time customisable catwalk experience where users can instantly buy the [...]
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