Two mobile apps for navigating the city in two very different ways:
Embark – maps plus some more hand-holding (i.e. alerts, underground access)
Via Laughing Squid
Serendipitor – maps plus simple instructions to follow along the way — for the more whimsical commuter
Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.
Grow Interactive worked with Google to concept and develop Uncover Your World, a lovely mobile experience for Google’s Search App.
To build the ad experience, Grow modeled an entire “world” with 3D technology and used a 3D printer to bring it to life. Check out the making-of video below:
You can explore the mobile site here: http://www.uncoveryourworld.com/
Contributed by Mia Ruiz-Escoto
You may think their time has passed, but what if QR Codes were less ugly and more useful?
Designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino set out to improve this troubled medium with Mapcodes, a hyper-linking system that uses fragments of maps — instead of indecipherable blocks — to link to full maps.
http://designswarm.com/blog/2011/09/mapcodes/
Although still in prototype/idea territory, it’s refreshing to see more user-friendly (and beautiful) graphic languages being developed for connecting digital content to physical locations.
Contributed by Ralph Paone
Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.
via laughing squid
Infographic from Kiss Metrics explaining what a bounce rate is:
Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.
Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.
On the site Two of Us, anyone can take a picture of themselves smiling and share it with another smiling stranger.
Amazingly simple, but still a fun way to connect and add some humanity back to the Internet.
Awesome free tool for learning how to code in Javascript! http://www.codecademy.com/
Read Marc Saporta’s Composition No. 1 on shuffle with the novel’s new iPad iteration.
It doesn’t seem like this would be that relaxing of a reading experience, but it’s cool that the technology helps achieve the work’s original intention to be read non-linearly.
Via Gizmodo