I posted some images from NY photographer Spencer Tunick of his global warming shoot with Greenpeace a while ago.
I have heard he is seeking volunteers to model nude at Sydney’s Opera House.
You can register to volunteer to be one of the 2000 required volunteers.
Great presentation by Stephen P Anderson about the need for creating online products that are seductive. [Check out his blog: PoetPainter ]
Fueled with examples, Stephen investigates human psychology and using examples shows how some products and services cater to our humanness providing seductive experiences that motivate us to engage with them.
It goes back to something I say a lot:
considering user experience involves more than only the consideration of usability….the preso is great…check it out…
The BBC have an interesting article about augmented reality where they show videos of the Mozilla Aurora project and the MIT Sixth Sense project. The Aurora project by Mozilla was created to predict how we might use the web in the future. Jesse James Garrett from Adaptive Path was lead designer in the Aurora project and the design process is very well documented on their blog where you can view various concept videos. NOTE this is not a product demonstration but a visualisation of ideas about a product – it’s what you could also call an “experience vision” as it depicts the experience a user has with it.
The concept video below shows how you can use Aurora to find out about a product on location using RFID tags embedded in the product.
Online reputation of products whilst important now will take on a whole new meaning once they can be read at the place of purchase through the web using RFID.
The Sixth Sense project at MIT is also phenomenal. Using augmented reality any surface becomes a computer. You can view a demo of this from the TED conference below. AMAZING!
Aptera have pledged to develop the most efficient car…..
From their site:
“When you work towards something you love, your efforts don’t seem like work at all. At Aptera, our efforts are toward creating the world’s most efficient vehicles. We love the promise of a bright future and believe that by thinking more efficiently today, we make tomorrow that much brighter.”
Check out this funny animation of the year 2009 created using Google Wave.
There is also a public Wave forum: http://discuss2010.com where you can discuss various topics such as Business, Social Media, the Web, Gaming, Technology, Education, Politics, Sport etc. in 2010. (I have a few spare Wave invites if you want to check out the Beta….)
On December 7th, 2009 at 1:30pm GMT Starbucks invited musicians from all over the world to sing together at the same time to raise awareness for AIDS in Africa. In that one breathtaking moment, musicians from 156 countries played “All You Need is Love” together.
http://StarbucksLoveProject.com – watch streaming video from countries around the world and then join in by singing All You Need is Love yourself. For each video submitted, Starbucks made a contribution to the Global Fund to help fight against AIDS in Africa. You can also help increase the Starbucks contribution to the Global Fund by submitting a drawing to the Love Gallery. The global sing-along is part of our continuing efforts to help fight AIDS in Africa. In just one year in partnership with (RED)™, Starbucks has generated money equivalent to more than 7 million days of medicine to help those living with HIV in Africa.
Adidas will release a new shoe that launches a virtual augmented reality game where you use the shoe as a controller.
You hold the shoe up to your web cam when on a website and a virtual reality site pops up in front of you where you can play a game and navigate by moving the shoe…Three games will be launched including a skating game. The games were developed by 3d game developers xForm.
For more innovative uses of augmented reality check these other examples out.
December 20, 2009 at 10:41 am
· Filed under inspiration
Seth Godin has put together a neat little ebook called What Matters.
It has short writings from many influential writers and thinkers such as Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim O’Reily, Alan Webber and many others.
Some inspiring sentiments and good ideas in this book at the right price
