Read in interesting short article over at Gizmodo, furthering the continuous debate about mobile phones and their relation to brain tumours. Evidence seems to be in favor of the phones this tim! Check out the full article here:
http://gizmo.do/oubhVg
Generic timelapses have bored us from the television world to the corporate world for far too long now, but I think this one, recently featured in Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/) is pretty awe inspiring:
Timelapse – The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo.
Here’s something you definitely didn’t need to see, but will undoubtedly make you go, “whooo, wow, awesome” or possibly, “who spends time on things like this???”. Either way, its certainly a sure fire way of erasing a disk!
This is an incredible short stumbled across recently. Bruce Branit’s “World Builder” short film is a impressive piece of storytelling. While it begins initially with a lot of technology, it is an impactful and rewarding human story that is one of the best short films I’ve come across for a few years. Enjoy!
When I was younger walkie-talkies were one of my favourite things. Before the days of mobile phones, when you had to use the house phone to call your friends (conveniently situated in the hall, so your parents heard everything) the long range walkie-talkie I had with my friend who lived up the road, was probably the best thing that ever happened to me (before my very first mobile phone – Nokia 5110 with SNAKE!). These were the toys that allowed girls to gossip, and boys to play war games for hours on end. So, wouldn’t the best app ever be one that turned your iPhone into your very own walkie-talkie?! Well, let me introduce you to HeyTell!
HeyTell is a free, cross-platform voice messenger that allows you to instantly talk with whoever you like. No account needed, just start the app, choose a contact, and push the button to start talking, turning your iPhone into the ultimate walkie-talkie! It’s basically like WhatsApp but with voice, and therefore I’m nominating it as the best app ever. The other best thing about it, is that it saves all your messages (even the sent ones) so you can listen to them the next day, or months after and it’s really funny. Really good when you can’t be bothered to text, but don’t really want to chat on the phone. The only bad thing (I think) is its name…not very descriptive! Boys, you can also pretend like you’re Jeremy, James and Richard from top gear on a challenge, with inter-car-communication. Go to the app store and download, you will love it I promise.
Whilst the Segway was a great concept, lugging it onto the tube or up stairs didnt look particulalry easy, and there was perhaps something extra geeky in how you lean against the handles. However, the Solowheel looks less geeky (the jury is out on that one) and is far more practical. Is this the walking of the future?
The centre-piece of American Football, NFL, the Superbowl XLV, is considered by many brands as the number one place to get your ad shown. With a monumental guaranteed TV audience both domestic (US) and overseas – this year is estimated the most watched Superbowl of all time with an estimated 162.9 million viewers, many brands pull out all the stops for a place in one of the ad breaks (costing an estimated $3 million for 30 seconds.) With competition amongst brands so high to produce something memorable, Superbowl Sunday usually turns up a few gems. Here’s our pick of 2011…
And Contender for the most over the top…
Ever bought something and realised you could have bought it down the road for £20 less? Im sure most of us have, I certainly know I have, but Google have developed a new app which allows you to quickly check you’re getting the best deal when you’re out and about. Not only that, it even scans barcodes for you, and takes pictures of book covers, how easy is that?! But most importantly, its free. Surely it’s a must have? I know Im impressed…
Panasonic have just brought out a new video camera, nicknamed by some the “DSLR killer”. There seems to have recently been a craze for shallow depth of field (that cinematic look) and vibrant, HD images which a DSLR with a large sensor and interchangeable lenses is able to produce. However, they have a lot of compromises, such as awful sound, shakey images and reduced recording times. The AG-AF101 seems to be the perfect compromise, offering all the pros of a prosumer video camera AND all the pros of a DSLR, without any of the cons. Sure, it might cost £3k more, and it may not be the most aesthetically pleasing camera ever, but goodness me the image quality it produces is nice… here’s a random video of some Japanese stuff to prove it:
Can W***** and K****** do no wrong!? The new Nike and Footlocker viral stars Marouane Chamakh and Andrey Arshavin who have joined forces with French World Champion female boxer and model Ingrid Graziani to promote the new Air Max 90 trainer. The video uses some snazzy projection mapping techniques for it’s animation execution.
Applied Works have created these interactive graphics and applications to further enhance various stories or features on The Time’s iPad app. The Times has been steadily commissioning the studio responsible to create easily digestible, interactive info-graphics for their digital readers and my, don’t they look slick. The Times should be commended on its continuing efforts to engage a digital readership via interactive, onscreen applications.
The Times: iPad infographics by Applied Works from Applied Works on Vimeo.
The app can be downloaded from here.
This video is a research project by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. Looks like it could be a competitor for the iPad… Follow the discussion here:
bonnier.com/en/content/digital-magazines-bonnier-mag-prototype
Exciting new HD camera to be released in July (hopefully). Amazing footage and very affordable. Look here.
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