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Powerpoint slides are like children

August 31, 2010 by Kris Hoet 1 Comment

Made me smile.

children, design, kids, powerpoint, scottadams, ugly, work

September, when robots take over the internet

August 31, 2010 by Kris Hoet 0 Comments

Looks like September is going to be robo-arm month. Microsoft is doing something cool with robots on RememberReach.com for the launch of Halo Reach (September 14th) featuring a user-generated light sculpture of Reach’s Noble Team.

“The Kuka KR 140 bot, normally deployed in car factories, has been outfitted with an LED and stationed in an undisclosed San Francisco warehouse. Visitors direct the machine to plot the 54,000 points of light that will form the Noble Team monument.”

Curious to see what the final sculpture will look like. In the meantime Coolhunting tells us Audi and Kram/Weisshaar (design firm) are preparing Outrace, an installation that will take over Trafalgar Square from 17 September through 23 September as part of the London Design Festival. This installation uses eight industrial robots from Audi’s production line to deliver messages sent from people around the world as 3D lighting graphics.

“The project explores ways to integrate innovative technology within the arts, using LEDs to scroll out user messages by attaching the powerful light heads to the mechanical arms of the robots. A long-exposure camera will capture the resulting light traces, creating videos of the user messages so that participants can share their experience across their social media platforms.”

As I said: September, when robots take over the internet ;)

art, bringtheloveback, community, design, inspiration, internet, technology

audi, coolhunting, halo, haloreach, outrace, reach, robot, robots, sculpture, september

Find all 57 business clichés in this picture

August 30, 2010 by Kris Hoet 0 Comments

It was actually created as a Holidays greeting end of last year but stumbled upon it while cleaning up some files on my computer. ‘Think outside the box’ and find all clichés hidden in this picture. ‘Low hanging fruit’, ‘Mission critical’, ‘Drink the Kool-Aid’, … those are only a few examples. Enjoy! You can download it here.

And in case you have no idea what all this business jargon means? No stress, you can still unsuck it here.

art, fun

business, cliches, dachis, fun, quotes, xplane

Reading white papers on the iPad

August 29, 2010 by Kris Hoet 1 Comment

I have this habit of downloading pretty much every white paper, research, … that I come across online. I then put them in a Dropbox folder so it’s shared with colleagues and they’re easy to access from multiple devices. They’re also mostly in PDF format for easy reading so sounds like I’ve got it all figured out don’t you think?

Problem is I never get to ready any of it. I don’t like reading them on screen of my PC and it’s not worth printing them all out either, that would be a lot of paper wasted especially since some stuff isn’t worth reading anyway… but that you only find out once you start reading them. This week I found the ideal solution though. Since they’re already all on Dropbox and I got Dropbox on the iPad, I opened all the files in iBooks and now I have a gigantic (will that’s probably a bit exaggerated) collection of white papers, presentations, research, … to read when I have the time.

With another week in the hospital ahead of me (routine stuff, no worries) this is just going to be perfect reading :)

books, inspiration, internet, research

ibooks, literature, reading, research, whitepaper

Cannes Lions 2010 in one PDF

August 27, 2010 by Kris Hoet 1 Comment

I never really understood the Cannes Lions advertising festival. Sure I like hanging out in Cannes sometime in June and see some of the best advertising out there mixed with a good party, it’s mainly the award categories that I cannot get my head around. Direct, PR, Cyber, … does that still work? You’ll see that more than 50% of the entries in ‘Direct’ are digital, so how does that relate to ‘Cyber’ then? I find it kind of weird that we all talk about integrated advertising but yet still award advertising filtered out per ‘medium’. Sure, I can see why you can recognize the best tv commercial or the best radio ad, but judging something like ‘Cyber’ what does that mean? Read the ‘Cyber’ entry category information and tell me I’m wrong. Isn’t it about time we rethink this?

Anyway, download the full award list right here in one handy PDF. Grab it before it’s too late.

advertising, bringtheloveback, conference, inspiration, marketing, media, presentation

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Icons of the web

August 27, 2010 by Kris Hoet 2 Comments

Is your website amongst the 1 million most visited websites? Find out here – and spot it between the million icons of the web. Or just order the poster ;)

[Via @fwa]

art, cloud, infographic, inspiration, internet

alexa, icon, internet, poster, web

Touch and feel before you buy?

August 27, 2010 by Kris Hoet 1 Comment

Keeping in mind that some of the data in the infographic seems to be a bit misleading (cfr discussion on Lifehacker) it still poses an interesting question about how shopping is shifting from online and offline, and which product categories are big in e-commerce.