RF-Chips make keep track of your awesomeness all over Vail. Think Foursquare but you don’t have to think about it.
Instead of unfriending people on Facebook, you can get the tuneout app from Altoids. It filters your FB friends down to just the ones you want to hear from. (No more Farmville posts in your news feed!)
So, I realize that is a regular barcode in the screenshot but this is actually about QR codes. How about IKEA puts these on furniture pieces that when scanned take you to a video showing you how to build it?
Street food vendors are taking advantage of mobile-social-location-based things like twitter and foursquare. Strap an iPhone to a hot dog cart and boom! High-tech hot dog location device and transmitter machine. Ze futur is now.
Motorists will soon be able to get tweets on the go with Ford’s new hands-free technology. Beginning with select 2011 models, drivers will be able to have their Tweets read aloud to them through AppLink, a downloadable software first introduced by Ford in April.
The True Blood mobile ad starts out all subtle and you’re not sure what’s going on, then BOOM it’s on! This is brilliant, much more engaging than flashing a banner ad. Blah, boo.
Poke did a slick interactive installation inside a few Orange retailers. Employees take then SMS videos of customers doing the wave and they are automagically added to the wall of others doing the same thing. When someone trips a sensor next to the door they get waved at by the wall. It’s wallsome!
Ok, so you know I’m a fan of Puma so I had to post this! Puma is releasing a solar soaking Pumaphone thats interface extends the brand with apps like sarcastic calculator, turntable, pedometer, and Dylan. I love my iPhone but there is something crack-like about this phone. We’ll see but for now watch “See me in action” and check out the “Technical stuff” pdf
Google Buzz is a status update feature of Gmail that has hints of Twitter and Foursquare. The mobile version opens up some great geotag features that tie into Google Maps and Google Places.
