Posts Tagged ‘innovation’

Get Your Fangs Into This

May 5th, 2009 by agenda21
 
Following on from slow-food movement comes the slow-reading movement - Whitney Sorrow has set up the Dracula Feed blog, where she'll be drip-feeding tasty morsels (sorry) of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The neat thing here though is that as Dracula is an epistolary novel (meaning it's written as a series of diary entries), so you can subscribe to the RSS feed and read the book in real-time. Clever...
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Living Sasquatch – your very own virtual Bigfoot!

May 1st, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
The link of the morning in our office (Congrats Mike!) was Living Sasquatch - Sasquatch might be better known as Bigfoot over here.. At least I didn't get it immediately, could just be me though! By either printing off the footprint, or downloading it to your phone and then filming it through your webcam and the site's built-in system you can make your own video clips of the programmable Yeti (they are Yeti, right!?). Cleverly the size of your Sasquatch can be adjusted simply by downloading bigger/smaller footprints - Sasquatch will always be to the same scale as his mark -...
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ToneMatrix

April 7th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
André Michelle is a German flash designer who works for Hobnox. I was recently passed a link to his ToneMatrix, which is one of many fascinating audio experiments on his labratory page. André's own modest description of the ToneMatrix... Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute. If ever there was a paragraph that exemplified 'more than the sum of its parts', that's it. Despite its apparent simplicity, the ToneMatrix is one of the most addictive and compelling pieces of programming I've ever played with. Try it for yourself...
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Oscar Lhermitte

March 30th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
Oscar Lhermitte is studying product design at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. One of his main interests is the relation people have with objects, and the different reasons they prefer one object to another. In most of his projects, he tries to create a unique relation between the user and the product, by giving it a “hand-made” touch or by involving the user in the design process. Resolving issues with simple eco-friendly solutions is also one of his aims. He thinks it is a designer’s responsibility to observe every single aspect of daily life, and to constantly question...
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LG win Best Manufacturer and Innovative Product at the ’09 Mobile News Awards

March 25th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
The 15th annual Mobile News Awards were last Thursday and it was a good year for LG, who won both Innovative Product - for their new Solar Powered Bluetooth car kit - and Best Manufacturer! You may remember we posted a few months ago about John Barton - Sales & Marketing Director of LG Mobile UK & Ireland - being nominated for ‘Industry Personality of the Year’. Unfortunately he was pipped to the post on that one but, as he collected the award for Best Manufacturer, he was still in good spirits. He got to meet impressionist, comedian and Dead ringer...
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Broad Brushstrokes

March 24th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
A colleague stumbled across this beautiful site from Spanish musician Labuat, and I spent a disproportionate chunk of the morning hypnotised by it. You have to give it a minute to load, (which confused me at first), but believe me it's well worth it. Just try not to waste as much time at work as I did. Try it for yourself...
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Attack of the Robot Fish

March 21st, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
Don't ask what I was doing reading a defence technology website, let's just concentrate on the fact that UK developed robotic fish are to be released into the sea off northern Spain as part of a three-year research project funded by the European Commission. The purpose of the fish is pollution detection. The life-like creatures, which will mimic the undulating movement of real fish, will be equipped with tiny chemical sensors to find the source of potentially hazardous pollutants in the water, such as leaks from vessels in the port or underwater pipelines. Thanks to Wi-Fi technology, they will then be able...
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The remote that’ll make you sweat and a photography project to make you think

March 20th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
I found this on Engadget yesterday: Crazy us, we thought that a remote control was meant to keep you on the couch -- it does seem rather counter-intuitive to build one that makes you leave your seat and jump around within arm's reach of the TV set. But when this guy saw an over-sized novelty remote at Brookstone, he knew that he had to have it. Not only that, but he had to best it -- by fashioning a controller for Windows Media Center so large that one would need an entire appendage to get any use out of the thing....
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Augmented Reality pt 2: The T-Shirt

March 16th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
Those smart boys over at Squidder are finding some amazing ways of mashing up the real and the virtual.. Not content with creating a barcode T-shirt that projects out the wearer's Twitter feed... PaperTweet3d: Augmented Reality T-shirts from squidder on Vimeo. ...they are now experimenting with a facial recognition-meets-Twitter functionality Facial recognition meets Twitter (kind of) from squidder on Vimeo. Creepy? A little bit. Amazing? Very. The applications for technology like this are vast and exciting, but also intimidating. As Squidder say themselves, ... imagine associating specific faces with twitter (or “face”book… …. sorry) usernames and you’ve suddenly combined the power social networking with video monitoring...
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Augmented Reality

March 14th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
My gob. It is well and truly smacked. In the words of ABC, "I've seen the future, I can't afford it, to tell you the truth son, someone just bought it" ...
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