First of all, let me just state – I love my iPad! I use it more and more as a replacement for my Macbook Pro. My iMac works perfectly as a hub for all my electronic content and of course as a workstation for all my designwork, photo handeling and creative work. However, the iPad is truly the ultimate portable device. I use it when I hold keynote presentations, which I actually make on the iPad, with transitions, animations and simple but more-than-you-need effects. I have ...
Life is fast paced, being on the go always, and having tools that enable us to be productive and efficient is important. I am one of those who needs to keep track of things synchronized on mobile and my computer. Good thing their is an iPhone application that has made this possible. Simple Note is an application that enables you to replace the Notes on your iPhone or iPod Touch. What it does is when you type in notes using your mobile device, it also automatically ...
Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we 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. Google is tapping into the growing popularity of social networking by integrating tweets and Facebook updates into its search results, as it enables users to screen for the web’s freshest content. The new feature, ...
Here is a brilliant way a designer has incorporated movement and expression with fashion. Based on a window display he first presented in 2004, the japanese designer tokujin yoshioka has now restructured it using a Japanese actress currently being presented at Maison Hermès, Japan. the installation will run from now until january 19th, 2010. ‘on designing a window-display of Maison Hermès, I intended to express people’s daily ‘movements’ with a suspicion of humor. there are moments when I perceive a hidden presence of a person in ...
A form of waterbed was invented in the early 1800s by the Scottish physician Neil Arnott. Dr Arnott’s Hydrostatic Bed was devised to prevent bedsores in invalids, and comprised a bath of water with a covering of rubber-impregnated canvas, on which lighter bedding was placed. Arnott did not patent it, permitting anyone to construct a bed to this design. The modern waterbed was created by Charles Hall in 1968, while he was a design student at San Francisco State University in California. Fellow SFSU students Paul ...
The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck colloquially (informally) includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fictional spokespeople for consumer products, such as the rabbit used in advertising and marketing for the General Mills brand of breakfast cereal, Trix. In the world of sports, team mascots are often confused with team nicknames ...
If Twitter asks “What is Happening? Sprouter asks What are you Working on? Here is a microblogging site for entrepreneurs. Sprouter facilitates networking and collaboration between entrepreneurs globally. Providing a platform for users to connect with other innovators, entrepreneurs can expand their networks as well as discover and join events in their local areas, start discussions and follow topics of relevance to their business. The team at Sprouter happily dishes about new start-ups, great small business resources, must-attend events and of course, upcoming features for the ...
Creating awareness is one thing but engaging people is another. Brands are getting more involved with making sure that they also speak with their consumers, not just create ads. One good example is the IKEA Facebook Application. The strategy here is quiet simple yet powerful. What better place to engage consumers? Do it where they are already involved and are a captive audience. FaceBook. What they did was to create a profile page for Gordon Gustavsson, the Store Manager. Then they uploaded 12 pictures of the ...
For those who make presentations during business meetings, I am sure most of you like me hate carrying the big bulky projection system. But its a machine that we can’t do without, specially if you are speaking to large crowds. Good thing a lot of designers and manufacturers think about these dilemma. Here is a great piece of equipment. Th HypnosEye Projector is one of the smartest little gadgets we’ve seen coming out of Japan in a long time. This one stands out from the recent ...
TubeRadio.fm is a web application that looks & feels like a music player where users can quickly find, listen to, build, and share playlists of their favorite artists’ music. Since TubeRadio based on the music library of Youtbue, it makes it easy to find just about any songs you want – Millions of them. What is Tuberadio fm? It’s the internet music video player. Think of it as iTunes meets YouTube meets Spotify. It’s absolutely free and there’s nothing to install. Cool feature includes: Discography Search ...
There are so many handy tools that can really make our experience a lot easier and faster. With the fast paced and busy lives we lead, having such tools can mean less headaches and more productivity. There maybe some occasions that would require you to grab your screen and share via email, or via the social networking sites. Now there is an application to help our online life a lot easier. Graabr is an application and hosting service which uploads your screen to graabr.com, with the ...
There are so many articles already written about Google Wave, the web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages and numerous other extension initially released only to developers, a “preview release” of Google Wave was extended to nearly 1 million users beginning September 30, 2009, with the initial 100,000 users each allowed to invite ...
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