The IKEA catalogue grows some digital limbs by using augmented reality.
Via Design Week.
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim.
The sleek application ARART uses augmented reality to amplify classic artwork.
via Design Boom
Evernote’s Peek app is a great example of innovation based on functionality — in this case, the “smart case” cover of the iPad 2.
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.
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.
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
Collect sounds from everyday life and use this app to make music with them!
Via Laughing Squid
The Trimensional app is a 3D scanner that generates models using the iPhone’s front-facing camera.
Via Laughing Squid
110 Stories imposes an outline view of the Twin Towers on the NYC skyline using augmented reality.
Based on your location, the app offers a glimpse back of how the towers figured into the cityscape from multiple vantage points. The app also encourages people to comment and share their memories and impressions of the augmented skyline.
The project, from artist Brian August, reached its goal on Kickstarter just in time for the 10 year anniversary of 9/11.
Read more about it here: http://kck.st/nIyEjN
This is a clever idea.
Introducing The Lynx Stream — A Mobile App to capture and record unforgettable nights out. The Lynx Stream collects every video, picture, text, tweet, check-in and status update a group of friends makes to produce an automatic Stream of the night and highlight video, which can be watched and shared online.
Find out more and download Lynx Stream for free
http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/prne/unilever/48911/
Contributed by Joshua Spanier