Translation in real time, via an incredible new AR app for your iPhone. This is taking Augmented Reality to a whole new level!
Takes a minute for your eyes to adjust but this is the new cool campaign for Leica.
[Via:clairehartley]
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Source: teaim
A true master of disguise. Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda took drastic measures to ensure that these pandas would not get used to humans before they were released back out into the wild. Cool idea, but I’d have dressed up as the panda for them!
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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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Liberty electric cars gives us the new battery powered and Rover…Lets hope they’re pretty big batteries!
[Via:Wired]
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Source: wired.co.uk
A cool new way to store your laptop whilst listening to some tunes…Check out this cool animation.
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Using your Oyster Card and Bike Key, Chromaroma
lets you play the city as you travel. It tells you stories,
gives you points, and visualises your movements
on an interactive map of London.
The idea started with a preoccupation with “data shadows”, part of the digital footprint we all leave behind. With the Oyster card, those of us in London leave a record of every journey, every date and every time, and mostly see those journeys as something to endured - as an obstacle to be cleared before the real day can begin.
Mix that with a healthy curiosity for history, geography and storytelling, and a love of the geeky ‘chartiness’ of Last.fm and you get a web-based social game that enables and encourages you to explore the city. It doesn’t need a phone or a screen, and you can use the Tube, buses and now Boris bikes.
Sounds amazing! Gamification is everywhere right now and this looks set to make commuting fun. Sign me up!
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The cool interactive launch of Xbox Kinect taking place in Germany. Using familiar everyday buildings the launch let users use their bodies to bounce balls around on the buildings and use their shadows to play games.Here’s praying someone in my family gets it for Christmas so I can have a go!
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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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Another 3D Projection Mapping project, this time brought to you by H&M. Its still cool, and its still baffles us as to its brilliance, but is 3D Projection mapping now getting old? Or can it still bring us something new and exciting?
Alex Dobbing for The Cool Commentator.
So now it appears everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of 3D Projection Mapping, this is our second post of 3D Projection Mapping today, this time brought to you by Saks 5th Avenue. Although it does have a slight twist, the project focuses on its windows as opposed to making the whole building into a different thing.
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