Lots of Lego lately.
All posts tagged application
TableDrum iPhone App
This is definitely one of the most creative applications in the Apple AppStore. You can set your custom tabledrum sounds as a trigger for ‘real’ drum sounds in the application. Seems like a gimmick, something to show off to your friends and collegues, but since there’s almost no lag, TableDrum actually becomes very usable. It even notices and how soft/hard you hit your pencil on your table! Awesome.
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Play #Frogger in Real Life
To support an Allianz’ campaign aimed at promoting a safe an healthy lifestyle on the streets, Ogilvy Brazil developed a real life, augmented reality version of the retro game Frogger. The goal: Get the frog to the other side of a real street populated by real traffic. Awesome!
Racing Game on Common Receipts
Nice microproject by Joshua Noble and undef called Receipt Racer. It combines a common receipt printer, a laptop running openframeworks and a Sony Playstation controller into a complete game and was made during the “Let’s feed the future workshop”, organized by creativeapplications.net as a part of the OFFF Festival in Barcelona on June 8th 2011.
The Future of Navigation
Nice project by a friend of a friend: Martin Frey. Cab Boots, with a nice German-English voice-over:
Skittles: Update the Rainbow
You’ve probably seen the Old Spice Responses campaign on YouTube. Well, so did Skittles. Their new campaign called Update the Rainbow is all about reacting to (or: repeating) your updates in a YouTube video.
Although there are some funny examples, this HUGE operation still smells like a bad rip-off to me.
Funny example:
Not so funny example:
[thanks rocco]
Neigbor Dining
Nice idea by Luong Lu:
Today, more and more people live alone and according to a late study, loneliness is a bigger health threat than alcoholism, obesity and smoking. What if we could fight it with something so simple like eating, and at the same time, save energy?