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May 9th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Augmented Reality, Development, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Social, Technology, Tool | Tags: app, Augmented Reality, chat, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, real-time, robot, Social, Video, webcam |
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.
April 17th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Art, Tool | Tags: Art, Data Visualization, maps |
Stamen’s use of watercolor lends an calming, handmade quality to these data-driven maps of San Francisco. Zoom in for more detail, or order a print for your home!
April 17th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Art, Mobile, Social, Tool, Video | Tags: Art, digital, Inspiration, photography, Video |
Cinemagrams are the new GIFs — get them before a creative asks you about them!
http://cinemagram.tumblr.com/
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim
February 2nd, 2012 | Katy | Categories: Geolocation, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Outdoor, Tool | Tags: google maps, Interactive, iphone, Mobile |
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
January 6th, 2012 | James Taylor | Categories: Design, Development, Education, Inspiration, Interactive, Reference, Technology, Tool | Tags: adobe, css3, design, development, HTML5, Inspiration, Interactive, Technology, web |
Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.
January 4th, 2012 | Katy | Categories: Art, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Sculpture, Technology, Tool | Tags: maps, QR code |
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
November 16th, 2011 | James Taylor | Categories: Development, Online, Technology, Tool | Tags: development, Online, Social, Technology, tool, utility |
If this then that puts the internet to work for you. The free service allows users to set up a number of ‘recipes’ that fit the structure: if this happens, then do that. For instance, if rain is in the forecast, then send a text notification or if there’s a new post on Craigslist for a certain item, then send an email. Simple utility.
November 1st, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Inspiration, Music, Outdoor, Tool | Tags: app, ipad, iphone, Mobile, Music, sound |
Collect sounds from everyday life and use this app to make music with them!
Via Laughing Squid
November 1st, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Art, Inspiration, Technology, Tool | Tags: Art, digital, sketch, Wacom |
Attention all creative directors who never bothered to learn Photoshop: here’s an amazing new Wacom tool that transforms your sketches into digital files.
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Via Discovery News
October 3rd, 2011 | Friends | Categories: Mobile, Technology, Tool | Tags: 3D, app, iphone, Mobile, scanner |
The Trimensional app is a 3D scanner that generates models using the iPhone’s front-facing camera.
Via Laughing Squid
