Translation in real time, via an incredible new AR app for your iPhone. This is taking Augmented Reality to a whole new level!
OVK Slooooow Down App for drivers with a buzz. Lets face it, the wilder the music, the faster we drive. This statistically increases the risk of accidents on the road. Happiness Brussels have found a combat us speeding whilst listening to high tempo music by creating an app for the European Road Safety Organisation, OVK. In a nut shell, you select the music you want to listen to whilst driving and when you drive over the speed limit it slows the music down. When you drive 10-mph over the speed limit it cuts the music off all together. This neat app reminds us all to slow down in a nice way. Personally I’m too busy rolling the drum kit to drive over the speed limit, which I wouldn’t condone either.
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Augmented Reality takes over MoMA in New York. This video shows a small section of the “We AR In MoMA” exhibition that we covered a few weeks ago - with a fantastic response. The gallery has been taken over by AR and users can see pieces of art that are invisible to the naked eye through their smartphones giving them a new virtual experience in the gallery.
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This handsome chap is a professor at NYU and he is going under the knife soon, not to get a new pair of boobs, but to have a camera attached to the back of his head via a piercing type system. The reason? To broadcast photos every 60 seconds to monitors at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar. Gizmodo has more information on the weird yet wonderful experiment that brings to life the age old saying “Eyes on the back of my head!”
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The Bloggie Touch says goodbye to the predictable. This video is a promotional piece for the new Bloggie Touch - a camera that you can take anywhere, shoot anything and share it with anyone. Bringing video blogging fast in the the mainstream. This little bit of tech might make for some pretty radical videos coming our way soon - this video is a great example! What’s next?
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A 4D Projection Mapping Event with Ralph Lauren on New Yorks Madison Avenue. This event took projection mapping to the next level making the event 4D with blasts of perfume covering the crowds watching the event. Now they just need to invent 4D Macs so that the rest of us can smell it too!
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Gestural Sculpting With A Multi-Touch Controller…or making shapes do cool shit on a Mac using your iPad! This tech has been and can be used to create all kinds of shapes and objects and with a few extra bits of kit you could even make your digital fantasies a reality!
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The barcode book by London-based product/sound designer Yuri Suzuki tells a story through illustrations made with barcodes. Sound is played using a barcode reader, connected to a speaker.
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A quick way to take video screengrabs and share them via Twitter. We have seen photo sharing on Twitter since (almost) day one but now we can share video too. And it is really simple too, so simple that we are sure that people will be sharing videos of things accidentally, or on purpose, of some naughty content your mother, and your followers, should really never see.
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A book that is a sculpture? A sculpture that is a book? Or just a plain tall tale? This is a new concept novel from Jonathan Safran Foer. A book that could easily be classed as a sculpture, that is apperently readable. Here is a little pretentcious quote about the project: “Jonathan Safran Foer, deftly deploys sculptural means to craft a truly compelling story. In our world of screens, he welds narrative, materiality, and our reading experience into a book that remembers that it actually has a body.”
Pre-order yours here.
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Projection Mapping into a Nike Trainer…this comes close to the best bit of projection mapping we have seen so far. We love this new tech that everyone is getting so excited about and this is a fantastic new example of how the tech can be used in an inventive way - onto a trainer instead of a building! And this is a pleasantly short projection too, so you won’t get bored!
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@WiredUK have gone digital and onto the iPad along with their Condenast collegues Vogue. The new apps are experiments to see how the publications live on the iPad platform, and to see how consumers take to the innovative new way to view their favourite magazines. As two trend setting magazines, they are truely setting the mile stone for others to follow.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) recreates the big bang, on a much smaller scale, using entirely different particles. Using Lead ions instead of protons the team at the LHC, based on the Franco-Swiss boarders, created the mini-big bang on November 7th. The project has been codenamed Alice and is the first of the experiments running at the center to see success. Other projects with silly code names have also started using the ions instead of protons so we are yet to see what will happen. Sciene boffins are now going to spend a month analysing the data to see what it all means whilst drinking copius amounts of coffee and talking about the football.
If you want to read more about it, click the image to go to the BBC!
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Gatwick invite you to explore a building site behind construction hoardings using your iPhone, Augmented Reality and a QR code. Digital agency Rabbit (part of Cow PR) are bringing you guided tours of a new part of Gatwick airport that is being redeveloped. On iPhone or Android (we are loving that Android is getting just as good, if not better, than iPhone these days) passengers can view a short video showing them how the Shuttle Line was built. This is just the beginning of a larger campaign that will tell passengers more, via HUGE barcodes around the airport, about how a £1 Billion investment is being spent.
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