Archives for category: Nifty Technology
Celebrating the 10th year of its website and the launch of their new e-commerce store in the UK, the tech-advanced design house Ralph Lauren staged a 3D light projection show over the facade of their London and New York flagship stores. Nicely done, but I don’t think you can really call this 4D. Stephen Hawkings, if you’re reading this, let me know.
Green screening and 3D modeling work was done by London-based Drive Productions.
Very soon graveyards will become tours of interactive life stories.
And it starts with this company: Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone is offering stone tablets with RFID chips to be placed in people’s headstones. Instead of trying to glean a lifetime from a pithy 10 word epithet, you can now use your NFC-RFIS enabled mobile to access someone’s personal goodbye, their favorite recipes, family tree, favorite songs, etc. It seems right now this is only text…but you know that in the very near future this will also include home movies, audio files, etc.
I can seriously envision people walking through cemeteries on a beautiful Sunday, using their phones to access this new Facebook of Dead People. It would completely change the dynamics of what a cemetery means.
Pretty Cool.
via PSFK
This piece of brilliance was created by Mobile Art Lab. So far it’s only available in Japan (the book frame through Amazon and the app through Japanese app store) and it turns the iPhone into an interactive kid’s book.
I love the creation of context around the phone that adds another dimension to the experience.
In quotes because I stole that line fair and square.
Hilarious video from the Onion about something that will probably happen.
How can they POSSIBLY have made such a crap, 80s-style, corporate/industrial film for this totally fucking amazing technology? It’s so bad – I don’t think this Claytronics technology is for real.
Seriously. Who did this? They should have their nose rubbed in it like a bad dog.
Uh…touchable holograms. It’s happened.
Who’s going to be the first to use this? I’m trying to think of a way to make it happen. But I’m sure the porn industry will beat me to it.
Unsexy video – but the last few seconds make it all worth it.
Put your brain on “relax” and watch this video of Rhonda – a 3D drawing tool developed by Amit Pitaru. Nice job with the music, by the way. Thanks for ditching the enthusiastic pump track for something that allows you to settle in.
via Rhonda Forever
The city of Boston has just released a new iPhone app called Citizen Connect that enables residents to send a pic and text to report complaints about potholes, broken streetlamps, graffiti, etc. The info is even tagged with location-based GPS coordinates. And once filed, users are issued a tracking number for easy follow up.
Hi, Comcast? Vonage? AT&T? Are you guys paying attention to this? Cash-strapped, bureaucratic Boston is kicking your free market ass when it comes to consumer relations. There’s no excuse for shoddy customer service these days.