Gone Away
Be back in a week.
BubbleWrap
Almost as satisfying as the real thing.
Comes With Music
Tagged In Motion
3D Graf at the shiny new madeintheuk
Godtar Hero
Released by Digital Praise (who’s company motto is “glorifying god through interactive media”), this video game enables you to strum along to some Christian rock favorites. Or, as they say ‘Shred those riffs and blast the bass’. Awesome.
Apparently there are other titles by Digital Praise, including Dance Praise, and Dance Praise 2 The Remix. Like I said, awesome.
And, of course, another excuse to have a look at this.
Opentape
Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player.
Crime Finder
This Crime Stats Heatmap indicates the level of crime detection in relation to specific areas of London. Which is brilliant if you want to score or burglarize someone in a relatively burglar freindly neighbourhood.
viNe
This is a little something we (in London/Helsinki) have been working towards over the last 9 months/few years. It’s a landmark project, not only because it has involved the continued and successful collaboration and dedication of a huge team across many disciplines and worlds. But because it is another indication of the way in which what I do is changing for the better.
The best way to describe a viNe is like this: at the touch of a button viNe records everything you do on your mobile (Nseries). Photo’s, video’s, tracks and more to follow (like I said, everything) are (geo)tagged to the location at which they were experienced. That media (or viNe) can then be uploaded, tagged, linked and searched - so it’s dead easy to document and broadcast what you’re up to and what you like - to whoever or wherever you want.
We’ve not only created the site, but the on device application, a widget (right, when update pushes) and a demo animation with the lovely Airside (so watch this space). And this is just the beginning for viNe, the app and site are in early Alpha right now (launched yesterday so buggy), but the potential of this experience is obviously boundless, and it’s already beginning to grab some attention.
This is without doubt the biggest and bestest thing I have ever been involved in, and something about which we are obviously all very, very proud.
I am going to write a bigger piece about it when it’s out of Alpha/Beta and into the open phase, which should be around November.
But for now it’s just Alpha. Oh, and everyone who did it is awesome.
Pet Station
More Synth
Live Labs has launched Photosynth.
If you don’t already know, Photosynth takes a collection of pictures (of a scene or object) and magically creates and computes points in a 3d space which represent points on the surface of the photographed object.
This then provides an immersive (reconstruction of the scene) geometry, that the user can navigate, to view the images.
The above video demonstrates how the ‘point cloud’ describes the scene and how images are located in this inferred space.
Photosynth post history here.
Wanderlust
Good Magazine has mapped out some of the worlds greatest journeys.
Trilobite
This is not a Dinosaur.
Video Nasty Claymation
Chainsaw Maid.
Glassdoor
Is a site that enables employees to write anonymous reviews about their company and bosses, giving ratings and info, including salary details. Over 50,000 employees from more than 11,000 companies have already contributed, including employees from some of the world’s leading organizations. There’s even an ‘advice to senior management’ section, so you can anonymously give hints and tips to your guv’nor(s).
I think stuff like this is really interesting, it’s a brilliant example of the internet’s ability to socialize pretty much anything.
iHologram
iPhone app that makes the screen look like a holographic projector, an effect created by a combination of ‘anamorphosis‘ and the accelerometer.
The app determines the viewing angle, (calculating the approximate orientation of the screen relative to the viewer), so where ever you watch it from, the 3D perspective gets skewed accordingly.
