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Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:21:00 +0100

Augmented reality in the new IKEA catalogue

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:53:13 +0200

Every year, the IKEA Catalog inspires people around the world to create homes they love. Now, IKEA is taking the inspiration one step further. This year, the IKEA Catalog is alive with smart ideas, fun stories and beautiful products. Download the IKEA Catalog App for your smartphone or tablet, and scan select pages to unlock films, interactive experiences, photo galleries and more home furnishing inspiration.

source IKEA

Mobiele technologie en mode, Marga Weimans

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:06:33 +0200

Marga Weimans heeft woensdagavond tijdens de openingsavond van Amsterdam Fashion Week (AFW) als eerste modeontwerpster mobiele technologie toegevoegd aan haar werk. De laatste jurk van haar modeshow bestond uit 300 mobiele telefoons die het publiek kon bellen, waardoor de beeldschermen oplichtten en de jurk tot leven kwam. Direct na de show konden bezoekers door de toepassing van augmented reality met hun smartphone een kijkje nemen in het denkproces van Weimans.

Mobiele technologie en mode, Marga Weimans

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:06:16 +0200

"Kinetic Rain"

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:24:29 +0200

1,216 Computationally Controlled Bronze Raindrops at Changi Airport in Singapore

Designed by Art+Com, since 1988 ART+COM works on the future of New Media. They design and develop innovative media installations, environments and architectures.

"Kinetic Rain"

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:23:36 +0200

1,216 Computationally Controlled Bronze Raindrops at Changi Airport in Singapore

Designed by Art+Com, since 1988 ART+COM works on the future of New Media. They design and develop innovative media installations, environments and architectures.

"Kinetic Rain"

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:23:09 +0200

1,216 Computationally Controlled Bronze Raindrops at Changi Airport in Singapore

Designed by Art+Com, since 1988 ART+COM works on the future of New Media. They design and develop innovative media installations, environments and architectures.

(More) Cool Vending Machines...

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:50:10 +0200

Pepsico Social Vending

There has been a lot of talk about Pepsi’s use of social media, with millions of Facebook fans and Twitter followers generated out of big budget campaigns. But this is just a little bit different, introducing the new Pepsi Social Vending Maching.

Rugbeer: tackle the vending machine

Here’s a great installation from Argentinean beer brand ‘Cerveza Salta’. Argentina is a country renowned for having the most football fans in the world, but in the Northern Salta province, the New Zealand equivalent of Argentina, people love rugby. Salta Beer wanted to create a campaign that targeted this rugby loving region and what better way to engage them than creating a tackle machine and placing it in bars!

Adaptive vending inTokyo

Also check out this earlier post

source digitalbuzz, youtube

The Social Media Revolution (parody)

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:40:36 +0200

Science Journal Produces a Different Kind of Viral Video

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:32:14 +0200

The world’s first peer-reviewed video journal gives scientists a better way to show others how to replicate experiments.

If a photo is worth a thousand words, imagine the understanding that can be captured from 10 minutes at 30 frames per second. A scientific journal dedicated to video—a medium seldom seen in peer-reviewed publications—is finding out.

Increasingly, scientists include short video clips when they submit their manuscripts to a journal. But the Journal of Visualized Experiments—JoVE for short—is an online journal where video is the main medium rather than a supplement.

www.jove.com

source: technology review

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The state of creativity

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:29:37 +0200

source: adobe

Coke's vending machine experiments

Sun, 13 May 2012 09:42:28 +0200

The friendship Machine

What if you can climb up a huge Coke machine and get 2 coke bottles for the price of one?

The Hug Machine

The Coca-Cola Hug Machine. You hug it, it returns the favour with a Coke. Because vending machines have feelings too. #hugmecoke

Color Forecast

Sun, 13 May 2012 09:27:58 +0200

Color Forecast shows you in real time what colors people are wearing in the fashion capitals Paris & Milan & Antwerp…

check color forecast

The Internet in society: Empowering or censoring citizens?

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:39:03 +0200

Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted from a talk given in 2009, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.

Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran’s ‘twitter revolution’ fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet.

A provocative thought….

Make the most of any space

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:08:39 +0200

The smallest IKEA in the world

IKEA on the move

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:22:11 +0200

Ikea is entering a brave new world: home entertainment systems. The company unveiled its UPPLEVA line today with a smart YouTube ad (embedded after the jump). The video spot quickly explains that the UPPLEVA line is the savior to living rooms everywhere with hidden cable tracks, integrated wireless components and a customizable cabinet design.

Argue all you want, but a HDTV is a glorified monitor. It should not be the primary point of focus when designing a home theater system. The new UPPLEVA line completely disrupts the big box store’s HDTV buying process with a high-dose injection of Ikea genius.

Like with everything else Ikea sells, the UPPLEVA system is completely customizable with a range of TV sizes and cabinet designs.

Ikea now even can provide you with the house that goes along with the entertainment system. IKEA is now also in real estate development.

Buyers probably still have to piece them together using those dumb keys, though.

(source: Techcrunch, Youtube and ikea.com)

Details....

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:55:11 +0200

(thanx Edward)

Disconnected

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:22:57 +0200

Censorship is inseparable from surveillance (Cory Doctorow)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:45:22 +0100

There was a time when you could censor without spying. When Britain banned the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses in the 1920s and 1930s, the ban took the form on a prohibition on the sale of copies of the books. Theoretically, this entailed opening some imported parcels, and it certainly imposed a constraint on publishers and booksellers. It was undoubtedly awful. But we’ve got it worse today.

Jump forward 80 years. Imagine that you want to ban www.jamesjoycesulysses.com due to a copyright claim from the Joyce estate. Thanks to the Digital Economy Act and the provision it makes for a national British copyright firewall, we’re headed for a system where entertainment companies can specify URLs that have “infringing” websites, and a national censorwall will block everyone in the country from visiting those sites.

In order to stop you from visiting www.jamesjoycesulysses.com, the national censorwall must intercept all your outgoing internet requests and examine them to determine whether they are for the banned website. That’s the difference between the old days of censorship and our new digital censorship world. Today, censorship is inseparable from surveillance.

MP3 link

source: cory doctorows craphound

Facebook uh oh oh (huh?)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:29:51 +0100

The contribution of San Marino for the eurovision song contest… no really! :-)