Augmented reality at it’s best. A translation tool that translates what we see, on the fly. This is the future kids! Word Lens currently only has a demo in the app store, that only reverses a text it sees but it’s still impressive. The demo is free, and I’m sure to pay them any price for the final app.
First of all I’m impressed how microsoft comes back from the ashes of crappy advertising and reinvents itself in that manner. Most of their recent ads are actually AMAZING pieces of work. It’s good to see that the “boring old PC” is getting the creative treatment. Well corporation-wise at least.
But the main thing I’d like to mention here is that they’re introducing a cloud based “magazine editor” that allows users to create their own magazines from the content from the web. This is an amazing idea and in fact I think it will be another thing that revolutionizes journalism in the e-world. Sure most of the things will be crappy, clip-art things from people with no imagination, but imagine those tools in the hands of someone wanting to do something really creative who doesn’t have programming knowledge. Yeah, that’s right! It can be huge. We just have to wait and see.
Since the introduction of the “5 recent tagged pics” on top of the profiles, there have been many pranks done with pictures of Justin Bieber and other creepy things to lighten up profiles of friends. But one Alexander Oudin managed to squeeze a little more creative juices out of that change. Pretty nice!
And these are apparently not that expensive. Well 4000$ is not cheap, but it’s not millions so we’re sure to see the technology used a lot really, really soon. Take note how thin it is.
I got a hold of a copy of “The Project” – new, hyped magazine for the iPad that’s supposed to revolutionize the way we think about digital magazines. I got to play with it for a while and despite the fact it’s pretty pricey (almost 3 euros) it also has some really cool ideas too. It probably won’t revolutionize the market but it brought a couple of things to it and we might see them in other publications.
Wow! This is stunning. And it shows some potential for modelling the future of architecture too. Don’t ya think some of the real buildings are a bit too complicated? You can find the images at Flickr searching for “Lego cities”. Amazing stuff!
To achieve a HDR-kinda look you can either play with RAW images, various software, filters or do a similar effect MUCH much easier. See how.
Unfortunately japan didn’t win the chance to organize the 2022 world cup in soccer, but their presentation is breathtaking. The amount of new technology that they’re showing is astonishing – on the fly translators, augmented reality and what’s even better a holographic representation of the main games in many other countries. Imagine that – you go to a stadium in your country and you see all the stars doing what they’re doing somewhere in Japan in real time. Well that won’t happen since Japan didn’t win and that sucks because an event like that could push the technology forward. Just watch the video
Doesn’t it always work like that? An event of a totally different kind can push the technology forward so it later can be used for many other things. Rock concerts anyone ?
Will it redefine the interfaces for tablet publishing? Will that in turn redefine the web as we know it a little bit? We’ll have to wait and see. Right now they have a pretty neat and at the same time grungy/electronic Tron cover with animations and flashes known from some thriller movies. That might be fun. We’re witnessing some sort of future here, and another one when “The Daily” comes out. Exciting times to be a web designer. A lot of new trends will emerge REALLY soon. See the vid :
Project magazine cover video from Project on Vimeo.
Apple is pushing forward the magazine revolution by cooperating with news corp. and they want to create a tablet-only newspaper. This is revolutionary and exciting for a couple of reasons. One – right now the tablet papers are “versions” of a regular paper. This one will be completely 1’s and 0’s so less trees will die in the process. Good.
There seems to be a lot of discussion about it recently, but mostly content-wise or about their future plans – i.e. more electronic only but high quality content publications. And yet everyone seems to be missing one point – since we already kinda know how a tablet magazine should look and work in terms of visuals and interface, is it the time for an “apple style revolution” again? Will they invent a tablet newspaper interface of their own, or will they simply base it on the best ones out there (Flipboard). ?
We’ll probably see sometime mid-december. And if the interface will be new it might be a start for A LOT of change coming soon to the tablet publishing industry. Well unless it’s actually any good…
Well it’s not exactly that simple, but myspace or my[ ] as they’re now choosing to be called realized that on the social level they will never win with facebook. So now they’re sort of merging, allowing facebook connect to log into myspace, and share friends and information between both sites. And from this day on myspace will be about delivering content (since facebook doesn’t really do a good band page) and facebook will be your social interactions.
By merging and diversifying myspace can regain some of it’s long-lost powers and thrive alongside facebook instead of competing with the behemoth. And that might actually be a good idea. The merger is called ‘mashup’ and we’ll see how well it’ll do pretty soon.
Johan Thörnqvist is a guy that mixes drawings and photographs to create what’s not there (or at least not visible to everyone). Adding small cities and characters, he keeps the balance of the drawing-to-photo and the result is simply stunning. See for yourself after the break. Check more of Johan Illustrations at www.snarlik.se
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Here’s a little ad from the 60’s telling you that color is the new black&white when it comes to television. And with color being a great new feature you’ll be able to … well, see colors on your tv instead of guessing them from the shades of gray. What a time we live in!
The Mac vs PC war has been fought ruthlessly all over the interwebs for at least a decade now, both on the advertising and on social front. And as with any controversial subject there are fans of both sides. But Microsoft didn’t really make creative ads before, and now it’s trying to show that PC’s are not “square” and “office and games” only and can be used to make really nice, creative things. Good! Because in the end the machine is just the means to achieving a goal that comes up in the mind of it’s creator. And the mind is not yet branded with any logo. See the cool video below :
Here’s a cool idea – let’s buy those overpriced apple products and then destroy them for the sake of art. If it won’t catch on we’ll be a couple thousand dollars behind budget, but if it does we might actually sell the prints and get the money for even more gadgets to destroy. Some we can even spare and use perhaps? Naaah. Michael Tompert is an artist that specializes in destroying apple products and photographing the results. He uses sledgehammers, blowtorches and other tools not necessarily associated with electronics-care. And for some odd reason that twisted, colorful metal looks really, really good. But kids don’t do it at home! More pictures after the break.
