Interactive picture book

Petting Zoo: simple, engaging interactive picture book from the delightful Christoph Niemann.

How to 3d Print

A look inside the process.

Easy Way Subtitles

This cool tool combines Closed Captioning technology with Google translate to provide subtitles in any language for Brazilian TV.

How Google Redoes Design

A look into how Google underwent a design revolution:

My Magic+

Disney announced a new bracelet-based system for park-goers: My Magic+. Green, glowing bracelets equipped with RFID technology, will soon allow Disney World visitors to make payments, receive alerts and better navigate the massive park. It will also collect more data about the people wearing them — and undoubtedly raise questions about privacy and the ethics of data collection in the process.

via New York Times

Musical Message in a Bottle

Re: Sound Bottle captures ambient noise and remixes it into unique, unexpected tracks. The bottle’s cork interface controls when it both records and plays back the sounds it captured — a fun use of technology to enhance the soundtrack of everyday life.

via Laughing Squid

Noteworthy Branding from 2012

Fast Co. revisits some clever branding campaigns from 2012.

Pin-able Banner Ads

Gucci recently went live with a series of banner ads with “Pin It” calls to action. You can save the branded glamour shots to one of your boards on Pinterest (and from there link to Gucci’s e-commerce site).

With the engagement challenge that banners pose, who knows, this could be a clever approach.

via Mashable

GIF-ITI

Here’s some awesome animated street art from UK artist INSA.

These start out as street art paintings, then the artist photographs them at various stages and compiles them into a GIF so that when viewed online they become a moving image! For the full experience, check them out here.

via Laughing Squid

what will you look like in 30 years…

… And will that image motivate you to open a 401k?

Wired magazine posted an article yesterday about a cool new digital campaign from Merrill Edge that shows you what you’ll look like in 30 years with the goal of incentivizing you to sock away money.

Contributed by Michael Phillips