So what happens when you take 300 odd Android phones, connect them all up and try to make them play a song together? Well, Google calls it “The Android Chorus” and its a little bit of tech-wizardry fun. There’s not much else to do but hit play, turn up the sound, and enjoy. This was [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Google’s annual ‘Year In Search’ is out, and in 2014 we searched trillions of times. So what do these searches say about us? About the world? Explore the Year in Search microsite from Google that lets you dig into the biggest stories of 2014, the big moments, the most important sporting/political events and the weirdest [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 26, 2014
Grab your morning coffee and have a good 5 minute read of this SlideShare presentation from Eric Schmidt, called ‘How Google Works’. It summaries the recent NY Times Best Selling book in 54 slides to give you a very top line look at what they unravel in the book about how Google runs its business. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2014
About a year ago, Burberry released a very cool piece of work called ‘Burberry Kisses’ which allowed almost anyone to send a virtual kiss from their mobile phone, to anyone in the world… Burberry Kisses is an interactive experience that showcases our ‘love’ for one another, which can then communicated in the most human way [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 30, 2014
So Amazon hyped their drone delivery service, and now Google follows suit, with GoogleX Moonshot ‘Project Wing’ which is code for Delivery Drones that are being testing in Australia. Google’s ‘Project Wing’ drones are delivering first aid kits, candy bars, dog treats, and water to Australian farmers during the testing phase. Perhaps the reason for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 13, 2014
We’ve heard a lot about the Google Driverless Car, with testing over the last few years well documented. But this is the ‘First Drive’ where you’ll find people actually in the car, being driven autonomously around some slightly empty streets as they continue to near production… The Google Driverless Cars will be designed to operate [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 25, 2014
Have you ever wondered if you could go back in time on Google’s Street View? Well, now you can with ‘Time Machine’ from Google Maps. A new feature that allows users to view street view images, and then go back in time with Doc Brown, via imagery from past Street View collections dating back to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Check out this new interactive, rich experience from Google called ‘Night Walk’ where you can explore the streets of Marseille via Google, in a 360 degree, commentated walk through the streets where you can discover unique and interesting details that you would otherwise miss. The experience adds in video, voice, images and interaction to bring [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 3, 2014
Here’s a great Infographic that shows the state of social media in 2013. It’s a great reminder of how quickly the world of social media evolves around us and how much can happen in 12 months. A few milestones include: The launch of Vine in January to Vine becoming the most downloaded app in April Instagram [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 23, 2013
Here we are again, the Google Zeitgeist for 2013 has just been released, summarising the most popular searches for this year in a nice little video. What were we searching for this year? Google’s Amit Singhal, senior vice president, said “We want to find out more about our heroes, explore far-away destinations or settle a [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 24, 2013
Just incase you missed it yesterday, and you’re a fan of ‘Doctor Who’, here is the official Google Doodle for the 23rd November 2013, which provides an interactive 8-bit platform game in which you play the Doctor through all his 11 incarnations. The Google Doodle was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 14, 2013
Here’s a great infographic created by Digital Insights that covers all the latest Social Media facts for this year, including figures, numbers and statistics. Some of the highlights cover: 4.2 billion people use their mobile device to access social media sites There have been over 10 billion Facebook apps developed so far 28% of Retweets on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Here’s another Google Glass App example, but I’m just not sure how relevant this one is specifically to Google Glass, let alone the quality of colour match from the Glass Camera? I’ve seen a number of iOS and Android apps that do this pretty successfully, but this attempt from Sherwin-Williams, feels a little gimmicky as [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 29, 2013
I thought I should share the new Google Chromecast Ad, which showcases the new Chromecast device, which incase you’ve been away for the last few days, the interwebs have gone a little crazy around this new HDMI device, which allows you to broadcast content from any of your devices… Mobile, Tablet, Laptop or Desktop… Straight [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Have you ever heard of a Moonshot? It’s the pursuit of not just the 10% better than everyone else, but the 10x better that what exists to date, a reach for glory through science and practicality. It’s not science fiction stuff, but it’s close. And this is the next Google Moodshot. And it’s called Project [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 24, 2013
Google’s addiction to creative experiments continues to skyrocket, and with it comes this, ‘The World Wide Maze’ which essentially, turns your favourite websites into mobile controlled pinball meets marble maze games. Click here to start the action, connect your phone, find a site and then play! Very cool work form Google Japan… It reminds me [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 21, 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...Monday, March 11, 2013
Volkswagen Smileage is an app that is set to socalise your road trips! Powered by the guys from Google Labs in partnership with Deutsch LA, the App syncs with your drive, has the ability to connect in multiple people, combining their photos, milage, checkins, comments and the like, into a Smileage score, which also aggregates [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 1, 2013
Google Chrome UK have just released this new Chrome Experiment called ‘Super Sync Sports‘ which, as the name suggests, allows players to sync their mobile phones and tablets to be used as a remote control. Once you’ve chosen a game, you’ll use your mobile to run, swim and cycle your way to victory, whilst the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 5, 2013
On their quest to map the earth Google Maps has gone off road with the release of these panoramic images of the Grand Canyon which allow people to virtually explore this natural wonder by viewing the site with full 360° views. Google’s ever expanding image collection aims to give people wider access to the world [...]
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