5th Ave Frogger is a hacked version of Frogger pulling in real-time 5th Ave traffic as game data. If you’re in New York this weekend, you can play.
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Nubot is a doll ready to host smartphone video chats via Skype.
The remote user can control the doll’s body gestures (wave, bow, turn) giving them more of a physical presence.
The folks at Nuuo that developed Nubot use it to have teleconferences between their offices.
We’ve seen a more mobile, albeit less cute, telepresence robot named Texai in the past.
Toshiba has developed an object scanner designed to speed up the grocery checkout process. The scanner has the ability to recognize produce and even distinguish between varieties of apples.
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Disney Research presents Touché, demonstrating that touch interactions don’t have to be limited to an on/off detection on glass, but rather any type of touch on any type of surface.
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A game changer for teachers, education (lesson plans) and more…
Unit9 premiered a new gesture-based, multiplayer, mobile-to-desktop synced game called Frisbee Rush at a few weeks back and are now finishing the app to be released in the coming weeks. More details on vimeo.
Corning released a follow up to their ‘A Day Made of Glass’, demoing the future of touchscreen technology.
Here’s Part 1 with 17.5 million views as of this posting:
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