Incredible.

rubbishcorp®’s good friend ‘A Great Little Place’ has been shortlisted for The O2 Smarta (most resourceful, original, exciting and disruptive small businesses in the UK) 100 ‘Business of the Year’ award. If you’re not familiar, a Great Little Place is a site that believes there is more to life than All Bar One, and seeks and shares the most charming and charismatic places in town; mainly in London but going global.

They need as many votes as possible to get to number 1, and get their hands on the £10,000 prize.

So, everyone, please go here and vote.

And if you’re stuck for anywhere to go in London, I know this great little place: http://www.greatlittleplace.com

GLP are looking to build the investment required to get a better website, and possibly mobile app, which will make the service better. They’re crowdfunding and asking fans to contribute small amounts, in order to gain the investment required to get our new service off the ground.

As friends of rubbishcorp® (both you and GLP) I urge you to follow the link below and donate a little cash to the project if you can. You’d do it for me, right .

Go fast as it ends tonight.

Link.

Thank you.

Site here.

Sweet visual stuff in here.

Directed by Federico Vitetta / Johannes Gamble.

Site.

40 postcodes across London each with a ‘Grid’ phone box. Participants play for their postcodes by running between boxes, dialing in at each location code and score points that earn badges (for speed, endurance and stamina).

Here.

Site here.

YouTube here

Awesome.

More here.

Mattracks Powerboard is an track propelled snow machine that carves through the snow like a snowboard.

More here.

ViaToxel

Or ‘Hand-boarding’ as it’s otherwise know.

‘Last year, Shaun White disappeared from the snowboard scene, holing up in the wilds of Colorado training for what would be the biggest winter of his life. This is the story of his year, the secret halfpipe and one of the most progressive sessions in history.’

Sick.

But dude, that hair? Seriously?

Here.

Yesterday I finally received the micoach kit. If you don’t already know, micoach is adidas’ real-time-audio-feedback-coaching-system designed to help people get—and-stay—fit. The box contains a shoe sensor/pedometer, a heart rate monitor and the Pacer bit (with is the monitoring/talking bit that feeds back to you as you run). micoach isn’t an Mp3 player, but you can plug it into one so you can hear the real-time coaching advice (along with your music) as you run.

Stride Sensor:

Heart Rate Monitor:

Pacer:

Of course it has an web/desktop interface that enables you to set a plan (including run faster, get fit, lose weight, learn to run or reduce stress) tailored to your ability level and goal. And because it’s based on your heart rate, the plans are flexible: So you can do gym-based cardio workouts or running/walking workouts.

It’s no secret that I am a big fan of micoach, it’s one of the things that attracted me to working with adidas at RIOT. I’ve run with + and the thing I most wanted from that (over and above stats) was to be able to actually improve my running (I’m rubbish obviously). micoach does that – which is pretty smart and pretty helpful.

Test to follow.

Get one here.

Goby is a simple search engine focused on enabling you to explore new stuff to do with your time.  Just select the type of stuff you are into, enter a city, and a time – and Goby provides you with options/links from multiple event databases. Goby can also find you a suitable place to stay.

Here.

Oh yes.

Nike Kit Builder (something I worked on at R/GA London) is finally live, following about a year as a retail initiative in Nike Town London.

Basically it’s Nike ID for full footy kits, enabling anyone to build a totally customised Nike football kit for themselves and/or their players/team. You can choose styles, colours, add names, sponsors, emblems and even build trackies for your back room staff.

Here.

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More Here.

The world record is 104 clicks in 10 seconds.

Go on, you know you want to.

Encounted this clip a while ago and didn’t watch it – it’s a video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill. Anyway, was with a few mates last night (funny how YouTube has infiltrated socializing) and one of them played it thru. Wow, features probably the best collection of street/street trials riding I’ve ever seen.

Awesome.

More here.

PingPongPlus is a digitally enhanced version of the classic ping-pong game. Played with regular  paddles and balls, PPP features a reactive surface incorporating sensors, sound and projection technology. As the users play visuals are projected onto the surface and music adopts the rhythm of the game.

Sweet.

Video here.

Link.

ViaPSFK

I know this is old, but I hadn’t posted it yet and I wanted to.

Ji Lee, (Google Creative Labs’ Creative Director), got tired of working in adland because he felt he was limited by client ‘stubbornness’ when it came to realizing ideas. So he took a few thousand dollars and started the infamous Bubble Project. Bubble Project, as proclaimed by its manifesto, aims to counteract corporate marketing and advertisement messages in public spaces. By filling in blank bubbles (posted by Lee) people engage and transform “the corporate monologue into an open dialogue”. The comments are then photographed and posted on the project’s site.

Link.

‘Barbiefoot’ by french design Chloe Ruchon combines the iconic doll with table football. On one side it uses Barbie‘s pink, frilly world and on the other its uses the predominantly male world of table soccer, know traditionally as ‘Babyfoot’ in french France.

More here.

Carlsberg has launched the service that everyone has been trying to sell to a booze client for the last two years – the mechanics of which are explained when you arrive at the site. Basically it’s a mobile app and online combo that enables people to track friends and find parties. It’s very nicely packaged and ties into the networks/technology of the moment, but it’s pretty thin without a host of good stuff to do.

The reality is that I don’t really need Carlsberg to help me find and keep track of my friends or introduce me to other lardy boozers. I’d like them to throw a party for me, but they could just as well do that without this service…

This idea was good two years ago, now – I’m not so sure.

The good folks at the Graffiti Eradication Partnership will be spilling their Campari.

Link.

More Shorditch than Shorditch.

Link.

Made entirely of paper and inspired by the distorted canal buildings of Amsterdam.

By Mandy Smith

Foldable Skateboard concept by designer Jin Seok Hwang.

Looks good, but it’ll break surely.

ViaNGBoards.

According to these patents Apple is working on a system that uses GPS, speed and loft sensors (amongst others) to monitor ski, snowboard and bike jumps. The tech appears to provide a method for determining the “air” time of dudes participating in extreme sports activities. The diagrams below show the whole thing working with a monitoring watch, kinda like a Nike + iPod style arrangement.

If true then it’s another very smart move from the (ever-youthful) Apple brand machine.

ViaMacNN

Nike+ for the green fingered.

EasyBloom USB sensor device into your computer to access the My EasyBloom dashboard. Configure and place the sensor in a spot where you want to grow something, or adjacent to an existing plant that needs monitoring. The sensor will then gather a 24 hour plant’s eye’ view of that location that can be uploaded to the EasyBloom website where ‘algorithms‘ are run that will either recommend a plant or diagnose what is wrong with an ailing plant.

Gnarly etc.