stickybits | tag your world
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Glow | How Do You Feel
Glow is a mobile app that tells people how you are doing and where you are how you are doing?
Touch Projector | Mobile Video Interaction
Touch Projector is a mobile application that enables content manipulation on distant displays via live video.
It’s a little ahead of its time if you think about the tech required to make it work, but the idea is pretty solid.
Via (the mighty) TAT.
MeeGo | Nokia + Intel
MeeGo is fully open software operating system for computing devices. Formed by Intel and Nokia and hosted at The Linux Foundation, the MeeGo platform is intended for adoption by device manufacturers, network operators, software vendors and developers across multiple device types.
Open good. Closed bad.
Here.
3D Map Landscape Demo | Ericsson Labs
The 3D Landscape API & SDK’s makes it possible to create innovative applications with realistic maps rendered in 3D.
ViaMIUK
Nike | True City
Nike True City is an iPhone application by NIKE that provides users with a unique insight into six European cities, making the hidden visible through the knowledge and insight of Local Nike Insiders. True City claims to be a powerful combination of premium, geo-tagged content, the latest iPhone technologies, and social media integration — updated in real-time by real people.
Additionally the app reveals where Nike events take place, the location of ’secret’ QR-codes (there’s a reader built in) and even launch info on new Nike products. There’s also a community element that reards you for sharing info to the rest of users.
Props to AKQA who have been doing some sweet work for NIKE recently.
Parrot AR iPhone Drone | Flight Demo
Parrot have created a quadricopter that is controlled over WiFi by the iPhone’s accelerometers as it streams video back to your greasy mitts.
Yes, this is apparently real and there’s an API so you can make games for it.
Here.
Social Player | Facebook Music Status For iPhone
Social Player enables you to share any song that you’re listening to on your iPhone directly to your Facebook status at the click of a button. The app simply runs on top of the existing iPod software and all you have to do is tap the button (left) to share the song you’re currently listening to. The app currently doesn’t link directly to a song, it just notifies song title, artist, and album, as well as the album cover (I am assuming that functionality will follow). Music status obviously isn’t new (Skype/Blip/etc.) but iPhone/FB integration makes it the easiest music-status-updater I’ve come across to date. I guess means it’ll be adding to my already quite large status pie, providing people can get over the fact it’s not free and there’s no links to actual songs (i.e. it’s not a player – yet).
By project.me
Here.
The ‘Fuck-You-iPhone’ Phone
Offside Tracking With Layar
Layar based (proof of concept) application by the digital department of Dutch football club PSV Eindhoven that enables fans to check if a player is on or offside.
Via TheNextWeb.
Mobile Mobile
Interactive chandelier/mobile that plays Christmas jingles in the LBI reception.
Nice.
Reminds me of the AKQA thing from last year.
More here.
Google Goggles
Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: Goggles will attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview.
Blyk | Watch Ad’s For Free SMS & Minutes
Blyk is an ad-funded mobile phone service that provides free SMS messages and voice minutes in return for watching advertisements. The service brings together advertisers, operators and punters offering ‘100% profiled and 100% opted-in messages meaning advertisers can achieve maximum ROI with minimal waste.’ Operators get ’sustainable profit growth through cost effective recruitment, engagement and advertising,’ while the users get free calls, texts and ‘useful information’ (this is of course if you consider ad’s useful, which they can well be). The service requires some degree of interaction with the ad’s in order for you to meet the criteria and get the free stuff. Currently limited to a target of 16 to 24 year old demographic, Blyk plans to recruit their subscribers on campus or through ‘viral’ invitation.
This service is very interesting, although I’m really not sure if the targeting means people will actually watch the ad’s. I am sure that British youngsters will become slaves to advertising to avoid paying phone bills – but why wouldn’t they? What are the negative consequences for them? Other than clicking ads away.., none.
Blyk here.
Stalqer
Stalqer is a location tracking application for the iPhone that broadcasts your location to your friends automatically and as regularly as every 15 minutes. Friends are imported via Facebook Connect and you can see where they are via a map or augmented reality view. Additionally, Stalqer enables users to locate points of interest via the application.
Homemade AR/VR Goggles
The person who made this claims that the main difference between using this and the phone itself is that it blocks out your surroundings – making the experience more immersive. I beg to differ, I’d say the main difference between using this and the phone itself is that this makes you look like a massive divvy.