Indoor Google Maps
List of places here.
ViaAdverblog.
Stamped
‘Stamped is a new way to recommend only what you like best—restaurants, books, movies, music and more.No noise, no strangers, just the things you and your friends love.’
Nice.
Here.
adidas Vs Flick Kick | Own The Game
adidas + Flick Kick (Pik Pok) partnership that basically puts you in the position of a midfielder passing the ball to your team mates a few times before creating the final pass for the goal (with your finger obviously).
web + app.
Very nice.
Play here.
App here.
ViaWeizy.
Vocre | Live Mobile Voice Translation
Vocre is a free app that enables people that speak different languages to talk to each other live.
Smarts.
And apparently it’ll soon work on phone calls.
Wow.
Download here.
Amen
Amen is a mobile application for “broadcasting a strong opinion.” Users input a place, thing or person (context based) and decide whether they think it’s “the best” or “the worst.” You can add a few lines of text after that, but most messages end up something like “This thing is the worst thing in the world.”
Each statement has a permanent link, and anyone can then vote up or vote down the statement by giving it an “Amen” or a “Hell No.” If you dislike a statement, you have to give another object that you think is “the best” or “the worst” in that category. For example, If you don’t think rubbishcorp® is the worst, you’ll have to tell the world which blog is.
A list for each topic emerges over time and the top-voted comment shows up at the top of the list. So if users are talking about shoes, the best-rated and most popular shoe shows up at the top of the list.
Interesting…
Here.
Pac ‘n’ Twit
Pac ‘n’ Twit (not to be confused with Touch ‘n’ Fresh) is a Pac Man themed Twitter client for iPhone and iPod Touch designed to make middle aged men that work in the media look even more like massive divvies.
Download yours here.
Well Barley.
Foursquare Privacy Loop | Check It
I hadn’t clocked this until @zeroinfluencer enlightened me last night over a small beer (cheers fella). Foursquare enables users to open any profile from a friend list and gain instant access to any of the details they signed up with. All the info is displayed on a handy little bar at the bottom of the screen, as wonderfully demonstrated by the lovely Tom Uglow (the closest I could get to a tech Debbie McGee) below:
That includes your phone number and email address…
Prolly best go foursquare/settings/privacysettings/contactinformation
BackSeat Driver | Toy Toyota
Backseat Driver, the first product introduced by ToyToyota, is an iPhone application which enables users to enjoy driving from the back seat of their car. The player controlling My Car follows Papa Car, whose moves mirror the route of the real car in which the player is riding, using the iPhone’s GPS functionality. By steering My Car left and right to follow Papa Car’s path and pick up objects, the player can score points. Backseat Driver offers the passenger a new way to enjoy the driving. The route that you took will be saved automatically so that you can look over. You can gain points by collecting the items Papa Car drops, and the Landmark Icons of shops and facilities that are from the real maps. After you gained some points, you can customize your car with your own designs. The designs of your car and the saved route you took can be shared via Twitter.
Sweet.
Here.
ViaIain.
Lookmobileon | Your Texts Calls Phonebook In Browser
Lookmobileon provides you with web access to your SMS, calls log, contacts etc. With instant web notifications for calls and texts. Just install the mobile app, (Android Marketplace) then sign in to lookmobileon.net using your Facebook details. Once your phone is synced, you’ll be able to visit the website from anywhere.
Perfect if you forget your phone.
Here.
Google Wallet
Google Wallet is an Android app that makes your phone your wallet. It stores virtual versions of your existing plastic cards on your phone. Simply tap your phone to pay and redeem offers using NFC.
Roughly translated as Google Wallet is the future, which is here.
Sonar | Phone ‘n’ Friend?
Using almost every publicly available profile available, Facebook, Linked, Foursquare, Instagram, Eventbrite etc, mobile app Sonar, attempts to show you who, how many, and why particular people in a room are relevant to you. Providing you want to talk/be talked to by a randome stranger…
Here.
Motionbeam
MotionBeam is a project from Disney Research that explores new forms of character interaction using handheld projectors. With our prototype system, users interact and control projected characters by moving and gesturing with the projection device. This creates a unified interaction style where sensor input and projector output are tied together within a single device.
Site.
Hype Machine iPhone Radio
Hype Machine evolved into a lean back, non-stop rich radio experience. The app differs from the site with an even sharper focus on discovering new music – de-emphasizing ways to go back to familiar artists or songs. There is no artist search, on-demand playback. Your favorites are still in the app, but they are mixed with what the blogs you follow are posting, so that you’re always finding something new.
App.
Site.
Planetary
Planetary is a way to explore your music collection on your iPad, via the space.
Here.
Heineken Star Player
Heineken Star Player is an iPhone app that enables people to interact in real time with the UEFA Champion’s League games. The app syncs with the Live game so players can make predictions that in turn means points. Points, of course, can be compared with friends etc, making this a genius second screen competition app.
Throughout the game, players are given eight tries to accurately predict whether either team will score within the next 30 seconds. A correct guess wins big points, with the first scoring more highly than those who call it closer to the actual goal. Free kicks or corners result in a quick decision making prompt, with each outcome – goal, miss, save, clear – offering a score in proportion to the likelihood of that outcome. Other ways to score include quiz moments, with a question popping up on the screen to which a quick, correct response can gather more points. Players can also opt to use one of three ‘power-ups’ throughout the match; either an additional goal chance, a chance to double up on pop quiz points, or a 50:50 style hint when answering questions. A small button at the bottom of the screen ensures that your friend’s scores – updated in real time, of course – can be checked against your own.
Players can also win different badges, visible on their profile. ‘Free kick hero’, ‘goal master’ and ‘corner king’ are mini trophies to be picked up for a particularly accurate winning streak in any of those facets of the game.
Facebook Connect functionality also enables players to publish results, and those of your league, to your Facebook wall for bragging rights.
Very, very smart.
Be really interesting to see what the adoption rate is as Star Players is effectively asking football fans to stop thinking about football and remember to interact with a phone during the most important moments of the game. This is a very big ask. I’m not saying it won’t work, I’m just saying this is the first time the second screen theory has actually been tested – props to AKQA and Heineken for that. I’m guessing the answer will depend on the level of devotion from the fan in question – the more casual the more likely to play, which still makes this genius.
One thing, it just me or is the decision to launch this late in the competition a bit weird?
Anyways, well nice work Heineken + AKQA
Here.
ViaTheWholeFuckingInternet.