What if you could give any physical object a story simply by sticking a barcode on it and appending a message to that barcode? The message could be a photo, a text message, a video, or a voice note. All anyone would need to unlock the message is a phone with a special barcode scanning app. The barcode in a greeting card, for instance, could trigger a video message from the sender.
You thought Earth was cool? Catch this! Microsoft is finally developing some software that outright is jaw dropping. Their map system integrates with the world by mapping out 3d perspectives similar to google street view, however, instead of riding around on top of a car you can actually fly around. Not only that but they have dude’s with cameras mounted on backpacks that are imaging insides of buildings!
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TigerText: An iPhone App for Cheating Spouses? Tired of your spouse going through your text messages? I know I could have kept several girlfriends around a little longer if I had the TigerText. This is for all deviants: cheaters, spys, philanderers, politicians, or just paranoid freaks.
The making of Old Spice’s commercial: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like. Do you think the Old Spice commercial” The Man Your Man Could Smell Like was taken in one take? The creatives responsible for the conception of this commercial tell all.
This is just cool because of the integration with Google Maps. It lets you plan a course on google maps and then run it on your own treadmill or hamster wheel!
Think Beyond The Label is a super cool way of making people with disabilities no different than us. That’s for sure! Like the concept - very CreateAthon-esq.
Because it wouldn’t be ATTTAACKr if we didn’t talk about AR. How will Augmented Reality affect our future? Here’s a beautiful and slightly frightening take on it.
In honor of Valentines day there is this. Send an anonymous tweet and the beat and your love life will be complete. Well, maybe.
Much like the eternal moonwalk, shareskittles.com lets you upload videos of yourself sharing or tasting skittles and then your video is paired with another to complete a unified skittle share.
LEGO CL!CK The new lego website is a piece of artwork. It has successfully aggregated its social networking sites and blog posts into a very slick flash site. New content drops into the site in blocks that you can blow up with a click of a button. The site seems to be a part of a campaign to “Find Your Inspiration” - check out the site and make sure you see their short film. Very inspirational Shortfilm
Visible Measures specializes in measuring the consumption and distribution of Internet video. The market for Internet video is evolving rapidly with new content being generated, viewed and shared at unprecedented rates. Research firm eMarketer projects that by 2011 more than 85% of the U.S. Internet population will consume Internet video, up from roughly 63% in 2006. The last time this kind of viewership growth occurred in a new medium was when the television was first introduced in the early 1950s.
