LG Tag+ | Contextual Settings
LG has upgraded its LG Optimus LTE Android (catchy name) smartphone with NFC (Near Field Communication) and a pretty interesting feature, which automatically changes the device’s settings based on its context. The NFC communicates with stickers or “tags” which you can stick anywhere. Users can then program the phone to change its settings depending on the sticker it is closest to.
Smart.
More here.
Him Her
Nice types.
Kinect Society | Not Everything On Kinect Is Good
A Kinect application and ‘social’ network that enables you to use your body to interact with your friends. Apparently users can chat, watch films, see photos and read the latest news all by using gestures, without the need of the classic mouse/keyboard based hardware.
Just like going out and talking – but shit.
Here.
Twika^o^
Twika^o^ enables the translation of facial expressions from a photo into a “kaomoji” (emoticon) for you to add to your mail, text, tweet, etc.
Here.
Cannaberg | Global Marijuana In Real-Time
Track the street price of marijuana by strains and prices at different locations around the world on a handy Google Map. Assume the people responsible for the item in the post below have been here a little too often.
Here.
See also.
ViaGMM.
Street View Hot Or Not
‘Beautiful Streets is a project from OpenPlans. It’s an experiment: we’re trying out a different way to evaluate places, called pairwise surveys, as popularized by the fantasticAll Our Ideas. We’re also testing out some neat interface ideas, and learning about the use of Street View in evaluating places for urban planning projects.’
Perverts.
Here.
Clik This
Clik enables users to push content to any screen with a web browser using their smartphone. Simply visit Clik’s website in any web browser and scan the QR code (with this app) on your smartphone to sync the screen. This beta enables you to select and search for YouTube videos from your phone and they will instantly start playing on the connected screen. Clik also lets multiple people scan the QR code for a single screen to control it, allowing groups of people to share content from different smartphones. Obviously, in time, Clik will do a lot more.
Here.
ViaPSFK
Android version here.
Game Over
If you don’t have good speakers, use Headphones.
iMessages On Your Desktop
As part of OS X Mountain Lion (due for full release in summer) iMessages is now available for your Mac here. Meaning you can now send text, photos and stuff just as you do on your iPhone – but from your desktop.
RIP iChat.
Link.
L.E.D. Snowboarder
Link.
Perceptive Media On Your TV
Incase you’re not familiar with the phrase, which I wasn’t until yesterday, ‘Perceptive Media’ basically means the personalisation of an experience via an API. Think Museum Of Me or that Lolipop thing. Until now this kinda thing has only really been available via the Facebook, but that might be about to change thanks to the BBC’s Research and Development department. They are looking at how to bring Perceptive Media to our TV sets. The idea is that the TV signal would be sent, as normal, to your set-top box or TV. However, the hardware in your living room would be able to modify that signal with information about you, to create a subtly different version of what you were watching, personalised for you. The personalisations made could be just about anything – from inserting photos of you into a picture frame on a wall, to changing the music that plays in a scene to suit your tastes, to inserting additional plot explanation if you’ve missed an episode. Obviously this kind of action has the potential to transform the way television is made and consumed. Information about you could be also be collected via sensors (Microsoft’s Kinect is a good example), and it’s no great leap to assume that existing data from social accounts like Facebook could also be used to further personalise the experience.
Via.
We Are Hunted | Spotify
In case you are not familiar, WeAreHunted is a site that listens to what people are saying about artists and their music on blogs, social media, message boards and P2P networks to chart the top 99 songs online. They then publish these songs on their (beautifully realised) website as a real reflection of what new music the whole wide internet is listening to. Or, as they say, ‘Looking at music this way, we detect sentiment, expression and advocacy to better understand what people like and dislike at any given moment.’ Obviously that’s a whole lot better than what the regular, some might argue, out-of-date charts say. Anyway, they have a shiny new Spotify app that pulls all that into a playlist.
Very nice.
Here.
Playstation Vita Ad
This:
is desperately trying to be this:
Which it obviously isn’t. That ad is over 15 years old and is good.
Vita is one of the most exciting and interesting pieces of consumer gaming technology in years and, yet again, the TV ad is a regurgitated sad old cliché. As a gamer, thinking about buying a VITA, this ad offers me nothing more than a Daily Mail readers view on why it is I play games and would want this machine.
VITA is a device for gamers, gamers that already have kit that does all the things this ad talks about. Yes, it’s well executed, but where is the insight? You could put an XBOX logo at the end of this ad and it would still work.
PSVita is the idea – not the advertising.
Please just show me that idea.
Properly.
R/GA Office Cupid
Made my day.
Funny.
Here….?
iOS ’86
Nicely.
Here.