Yell.com, the local business directory, is running a cool new competition to offer the biggest hipsters out there a chance to win big prizes by rummaging through vintage record shops. Across the nation they are rewarding people for finding a somewhat obscure track in independent music stores – Pulse & Thunder by Day V. Readers
Finally, some good cases for my iPhone, I’ve been looking around for a while but everything seems tailored to the 3G even a year after the phone’s been released. Finally Nigo’s former enterprise have pushed for a collab with the case makers Gizmobies, in various different styles and you can expect these to hit the
Converse have just released their new iPhone app. It operates on the simple premise that people like to try things on before they buy them and with this new application you can sample any shoe from the converse catalogue instantly. Using augmented reality you can point the device at your feet and simulate what your
The iconic Stachus, Munich staged the recent launch of Microsoft’s new headlining offering, the Kinect. The event saw the use of a Kinect inspired interactive projection map display and crowds of people getting involved. Though only inspired by the Kinect technology, Project Natal has been astounding since it’s demo at E3. I hope I wasn’t
Perfect Fools, an international digital creative agency, were approached by Bouygues Telecom to launch their new Facebook platform. In their research, they decided to go above and beyond, and realised that whilst people use the social networking site on a day to day basis, the key moments are often lost in the sea of information,
In the past year light mapping and 3D projection has really taken off, just recently we have posted projects by Seeper and also the magnificent work that was done for the 600th anniversary of the Astrological Tower in Prague. Yesterday the Vienna tourist board turned the award-winning Imagination Gallery in central London in to a
Japanese brand MUJI have brought their minimalist design to the iPad/iPhone in the form of four new applications – MUJI Calendar, MUJI Notebook, MUJI To Go and Japanese only MUJI Apparel Catalogue. MUJI Calander I have never seen a calendar application work as well as this does, with its multi-touch gestures you can easily glide
This episode of Tech Innovation is dedicated to the Apple conference Back To The Mac that was held on the 20th of this month. Now i normally talk about a few innovations in these posts but with the new MacBook Air and OSX Lion there is plenty to talk about. MacBook Air “Everything that we
During the daily Twitter routines, I just noticed this post from The Cool Hunter’s Twitter. TCH’s Twitter has been fully rebranded to adopt a Banksy look and feel, including the avatar being changed, to make out like the prolific graffiti artist has taken control of the account. Whilst it is obviously a PR stunt, it
Whilst browsing the blogosphere this morning I came across this gem. The Macula, a Czech audio-visual company, have created the best bit of light mapping I have ever come across, I had no idea this was even possible. It was created to celebrate the 600 year anniversary for the astrological tower in Prague. They use
