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Cereal gaming

November 10, 2009 by Kris Hoet 0 Comments

Augmented reality is the new black, but only few people seem to be doing something really interesting with the concept of AR. I don’t really want to hold a white paper with a black mark on it in front of my laptop to get a 3D image of a car projected on it… or at least on screen that is. I could already see that same 3D car on my screen in the past without all the AR complications. Catch my drift? Do something different and fun like the example below, or make it useful like what Ray Ban did recently with their Virtual Mirror.

Enjoy.

And if you do want to create some AR with cars, maybe make it some more like this ;)

[Via Helge Tenno]

advertising, design, electronics, fun, games, inspiration, internet, technology

advertising, ar, augmented reality, augmentedreality, fun, games, rayban

Let’s face it

November 6, 2009 by Kris Hoet 1 Comment

I found this the other day on Zoomdoggle: Eric Testroete, a Vancouver based gaming industry guy, created this pretty cool 3D mask of his own face. Awesome don’t you think?

Similar concepts on the website of Bert Simons, one I found via Pietel on Facebook today, all I need now is some free time :)

art, design, inspiration

3d, art, design, game, mask, simmons, testroete

Going vertical

October 26, 2009 by Kris Hoet 2 Comments

A couple of days ago I read this article about a new book format called ‘Dwarsligger’ (Dutch) which is supposed to make it easier to read in bed or on a plane… Not only is the book’s size adapted but more importantly you have to read from top to bottom instead of left to right.

Interesting thought, I’m almost amazed nobody else thought of this before. Funny enough, only a couple of days later, I noticed the following video in which another Dutchman presents a new invention at the INMA Outlook 2010 Conference: the vertical newspaper. I smell a trend :)

Who’s next?

books, consumer, design, inspiration, media

2010, book, inma, invention, netherlands, newspaper, vertical, video

Because clicking is so 90′s

October 22, 2009 by Kris Hoet 2 Comments

This trailer shows a the website project created by Andreas Lutz as part of a study project and is rather inspirational. The website uses video and sound input to control the navigation, so basically you navigate using gestures and voice.

Make sure you try it out for yourself on Andreas’ website as well. I found it still pretty hard to use the navigation and have to admit I still prefer clicking for now :) but you can see where this is going and that’s an opportunity that I do want to think about. Very cool!

[Via fubiz]

beta, design, inspiration, internet, media, technology, video

andreaslutx, audiovisual, control, navigation, video, voice, website

The Ad-O-Matic

October 22, 2009 by Kris Hoet 0 Comments

The future is here! After crowdsourcing as an option to create an advertising campaign, the Ad-O-Matic promises an even easier way out. Miami Ad School students created the all-in-one ad generator, watch it here:

[Via AdFreak]

advertising, branding, design, electronics, fun, marketing, technology, video

adomatic, advertising, cmo, creative, machine

If you printed the internet…

September 16, 2009 by Kris Hoet 2 Comments

Very nice infographic about what it would take if you wanted to print out all the content on the internet. Here’s one visual, make sure you visit CreativeCloud for more infographics about the topic.

design, fun, infographic, inspiration, internet, technology

infographic, internet, paper, print, stats

Gauging the internet

September 11, 2009 by Kris Hoet 1 Comment

I like simple things like this.

“The gauge is attached via a network cable to the internet where it monitors news and search results for “paris hilton” and “paris france” and displays an average result in real-time.”

[Via Microsoft buddy Steve Clayton]

art, beta, design, electronics, fun, internet

france, gauge, hilton, paris

Design fail

August 27, 2009 by Kris Hoet 1 Comment

Just a bit of Thursday morning fun, found this via someone on Facebook (forgot who – sorry for that). Did we ever notice how poorly designed the Star Wars universe really was? ;)

“Blasters. A tactical nightmare: They’re incredibly loud, especially for firing what are essentially light beams. The fire ordnance is so slow it can be dodged, and it comes out as a streak of light that reveals your position to your enemies. Let’s not even go near the idea of light beams being slow enough to dodge; that’s just something you have let go of, or risk insanity.”

More of the same on SciFi Scanner.

design, fun, movies, quote, technology

design, facebook, fail, fun, starwars

A real human interface

May 25, 2009 by Kris Hoet 2 Comments

Found this video via Druppels on Facebook – I love stuff like this. It’s a concept created by Multitouch Barcelona and you simply cannot not like this… see for yourself:

art, design, inspiration, technology, video

art, barcelona, concept, human, interface, multitouch

Awesome!

March 24, 2009 by Kris Hoet 4 Comments

If I have one problem with SxSW it would be the noise this event generates. From weeks to months in advance people start chatting it up on where to go, what to do, how to survive, … and by the team SxSW is on there is so much live coverage it is hard to find the good stuff.

That is until you stumble on coverage like this. Forget about live blogging, live twittering… here is Mike Rohde live sketchnoting the festival. In a time where speed and quantity seem to drive the online conversation, in a time where it seems to matter more to say a lot and to say it before anyone else… this is just the break you need. Thanks Mike!