Almost every way we share information seems to come from an internet source, but finding concepts that try to change the way we entertain content always fascinates us. One we recently stumbled upon comes from art science student Matthijs Munnik, whom has created a little bird house that sends out secret message in public spaces. […]
Archives for August 2012
Real-Time action with social gaming
In this interview Karim Kanji chats with the founder and CEO of GameDay InteraActive: Nicholas Murphy. GameDay InterActive is working toward being an innovative Second Screen Fantasy Sports engine for the Facebook & iOS platforms. By leveraging real-time action with social gaming, GameDay hopes to drive a deeply engaging “Second Screen” experience for sports fans. […]
Fix Me Stick – The dark knight of virus infected computers
A computer virus can render any device it infects effectively catatonic. An infected computer can become unresponsive, bogged down, erratic. The virtual gears and pulleys that power your operating system rapidly grind to a halt without even so much as a ceremonious screech or sudden thud to warn you. The usual response is to download […]
The Ontama Speaker
An accessory that looks to be contrived through a combination of Teletubbies and Willy Wonka’s candy factory, The Ontama Speaker lets you take your electronic devices into the shower. While for many the shower is the one place to escape technology, for you this may be the place to let loose that inner Celine Dion, […]
Interactive gesture displays that use the Kinect
Gesture and interactive displays or platforms will certainly be in the forefront of our everyday lives in the near future. Toronto agency Thinking Box saw huge enrollment by users when they implemented interactive windows at four traffic heavy Starbucks locations in Toronto and Vancouver. With delightful animations the campaign garnered over 3,000,000 impressions and over […]
Artkive your childs art in the cloud
Not to long ago we shared with you Child’s Own Studio, the shop that brings your children’s drawings to life as a plush toy. But what if Child’s Own Studio is swamped with orders and now you’re left with a trail of cherished artistic moments from your little one taking up space or collecting dust. […]
Gaming and Technology
Ingamer is a 3-screen social gaming platform that turns what is usually a passive sports-watching audience into an active one. It stimulates viewership to allow partners to monetize on how and where they are engaged. The logical next step in live sport and live event production licensing, broadcasting, and marketing. In this clip, XConnect host […]
What did you do a year ago on social media?
Would you want to be reminded of what you were doing a year ago? Maybe that doesn’t matter to everyone, but for those that live for nostalgia will get a kick out of Timehop. Timehop relives your digital story from a year ago today across various social platforms and shares them back to you via […]
Meerli a place to become a better mobile designer
This past March we shared with you Seriously Mobile, a community for mobile designers, which is being built with an emphasis on feedback and interaction rather than just a showcase of design. Since then the platform has re-branded, redesigned and grown rapidly with hundreds of crowdsourced designs for your inspiration. Now named Meerli, the Swedish […]
Mini thermal printers
Similar to the Berg Little Printer, the newly crowdfunded mPrinter is an analog printer with a 3” print head that’ll print anything you command it to. From text, Sudoku grids, HTML images, doodles, or fully dynamic data created from custom hosted Javascript environment on their website. Designed by Andy Muldowney, the mPrinter users open-source software […]