May 2012
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Alarm clock app rewards users for guessing which... →
Most people need a little help to clear heads in the morning, and this app from Lufthansa airline struck us as an ingenious idea to kickstart the brain at dawn. Set up as an alarm on the user’s phone, the app played sounds to represent different cities as a wake-up call. The user then had to guess which city the sound represented and input their answer into the phone. If they were correct, they...
“The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and...”
– The Kybalion (via lucifelle)
Rdio Wants To Pay Artists for Turning Fans into...
Rdio Wants To Pay Artists for Turning Fans into Subscribers
Published on Evolver.fm | shared via feedly mobile
The music middlemen have another reason to be nervous. Rdio, the music subscription service whose redesign we applauded at SXSW, plans to pay recording artists who drive fans to its subscription service. “They’re basically offering a bounty for everybody you bring them,” said an...
These Rings Are Infographics Showing The Sounds...
Data audiolization
These Rings Are Infographics Showing The Sounds You Hear At Cartier
Published on Co.Design | shared via feedly mobile
What does Cartier sound like? What about Bulgari? Can “luxury” be distilled from noise? That’s the basis for Truecartier, a series of rings by young computational designer Alvaro Soto.
Like many of his contemporaries, Soto is interested in turning data into...
Navigation | Geocodedart can take you to the... →
Navigation | Geocodedart can take you to the places where paintings were created
Published on rb.trends | shared via feedly mobile
An App Turns The Whole World Into A Museum
“The creators of geocodedArt, a new project looking for funding on Kickstarter, purport to have gathered a database of 1000s of famous paintings from around the world and coded the precise locations their canvases...
Bing Unveils Redesign, Aimed At Cracking...
Bing Unveils Redesign, Aimed At Cracking Social-Network Searching
Published on Co.Design | shared via feedly mobile
The core idea underlying Bing’s revamp is that “people are as important as pages,” Bing Director Stefan Weitz tells Fast Company. “People tell us they trust their friends above all other forms of recommendations,” he explains. The revamp then, is an attempt...
LabCAST - The MIT Media Lab Video Podcast »... →
Physical-digital interaction
Watchbashford:
reaDIYmates are “Fun Wi-fi companions that move and play sounds depending on what’s happening in your digital life”.
Kickstarter link
WatchMovements - Concept (by trive)
“The Livehoods Project presents a new methodology for studying the dynamics,...”
– Livehoods
About - Kickstriker →
Kickstriker is a fundraising platform for activists, engineers and others working to resolve global conflicts. We believe that crowdfunding holds the potential to address many conflicts around the globe by allowing those who care to directly support potential solutions. These solutions might take the form of military action, supplying equipment and arms to those in need or the development of new...
Watchbashford:
“Ugle by Voy is a wooden owl that can be controlled over the internet with an iPhone application. It lets you send colour-messages from your phone to your home. When you change the position of the colors on the owl on the screen, the physical owl turns its head to the chosen color. It is a decorative personal message system where the household has to decide what the colours mean.”
Statricks →
Statricks is developing a free resource to help buyers and sellers of used goods maximize savings and profit by statistically analyzing online marketplaces to provide blue book values and valuable price trends. Kelley Blue Book on steroids, for everything.
View startup
from Beta List http://btl.st/JpqRvE
The latest from Experimental Philosopher Jonathan... →
“May 7, 2012 – A new data processing center inside the Hong Kong banking headquarters of HSBC will be the world’s first computing hub powered entirely by pan-Asian currency exchange. Starting on May 16th, all energy will be generated on location by swapping ions between newly-minted Hong Kong cents and Chinese fen.
“Money is inherently unstable,” says experimental philosopher Jonathon...
Tech Art: JODI
Organic metaphors
Tech Art: JODI
Published on Beyond The Beyond | shared via feedly mobile
*Jodi are, like, the primordial net.art net-art guys. I’m trying to think of a good parallel for Jodi from some more cogent realm of human experience. Okay, Jodi in the art world is like being a professional florist, and you want to market some pretty orchids, and somebody brings you a 50-lb bag of...
Immaterials – the form of meta data created by... →
Immaterials – the form of meta data created by onformative
Immateriality as material is currently being discovered, opening up a new poetic field in which to narrate with space and information. Location-based metadata waft through the space, and are thereby redefining contexts and places. A new field opens up to designers.
from Darkly Euphoric http://bit.ly/IHmbp8
Mon.ki →
Mon.ki is a Chrome web extension that integrates Twitter content with what’s open in your browser. Mon.ki sweeps webpages and gives users the lowdown about given topics in real time on Twitter. So users can quickly find out what people are saying about products or news and find new feeds.
Nice.
Here.
Via.
from (title unknown) http://bit.ly/KMaVaw
"My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in... →
““My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so...
The KNÄPPA recyclable camera was designed by... →
The KNÄPPA recyclable camera was designed by Jesper Kouthoofd to…
Published on Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things | shared via feedly mobile
The KNÄPPA recyclable camera was designed by Jesper Kouthoofd to help encourage IKEA customers to share photos of their homes. It is made out of one piece of folded cardboard secured by two plastic screws and a single circuit board holds all the...
Watch“Export to physical object…
Now, for many, that means some kind of fancy 3D printing that will soon revolutionize the world, bringing us into the realm of the matter-from-nothing science fiction of Star Trek.
Well, or you could just do some work. That’s what artist Mike Greer documents in a lovely timelapse video, in which a Blender 3D model is transformed before your very eyes into a...
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How One Shopping-Addict Transformed Retail Into A...
http://www.psfk.com/2012/04/need-to-know-rachel-shechtman.html
I believe our model taps into that 30% and that is why we have been successful. We are merchandising and editing products as our version of editorial content, and consumers are loving it. Transactional Storytelling! We have customers begging our sales staff and emailing our manager to find out the next STORY.
If you create a...
