Archived entries for Technology

Cadbury round YouTube player

To promote its roll pack, Cadbury is using the YouTube video player its own crazy way.

A kinda of out of the box thinking by using technical optical illusion. Too bad it feels kinda of gimmicky somehow no doubt it still brings a sense fun a craziness from the brand.

World cup twitter replay

Remember those championship manager games in the early nineties when you are perpetually watching your team place against others just by watching the text commentary? Twitter world cup replay has brought the same notion with this world cup and brings much joy to those who doesn’t have access to the games. Awesome data visualization.

Shadows

Augmented Shadow, by Joon Moon, 2010. used openframeworks. It’s a tabletop interface on where artificial shadows of tangible objects displayed. You can play with the shadows lying on the boundary between the real, virtual, and fantasy.

All i ever need

The MIT Media Lab never ceases to amaze us – its latest invention is from Natan Linder, and at first glance could be taken as a quirky looking desktop lamp. Oh, but LuminAR is so much more than a light source. It’s a personal computer, desktop helper robot and research assistant all in one!

HTML 5

HTML 5 is here but it got most of us (especially client) in a state of confusion. This diagram will be a good intro for all those out there that need a better understanding of how it works in a visual way.

World cup interactive calendar

Marca.com provides an original interactive calendar for the World Cup.
It’s nice, dynamic and ergonomic. It remains intuitive, you get access to all the information in one screen. This wheel is a good work of infographics.

Future of UI


Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?

Hyperlinks in Printed Books

Ubimark embeds books with two-dimensional codes that work as hyperlinks when photographed. So far there’s just one book available in English, Around the World in 80 Days, with the bar-like codes.

Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks in Printed Books, by Mary Helen Miller

Hit the road

Harley davidson launch a 360 touring trip in france at the comfort of your own screen. Neat way to communicate the core beliefs of the brand when it comes to bikes that makes the road trip an unforgettable one.

Converse Domaination

Pretty interesting way on how converse use google for real fun.



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