MuralApp from Code for America, a mobile website connecting the people of Philadelphia to the city’s prolific MuralArts public art program
Google and Carnegie Mellon researchers team up on cloud-powered facial recognition that would enable you to take a photo of a complete stranger and track their real identity in mere minutes
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Technology/Mobile: Star Wars: TIE Fighter combat meets augmented reality
As you can see, the game overlays itself on whatever appears in your iPhone camera lens. Point it at the night sky and, presto, you’re blasting TIE fighters in outer space. Point it at the dog and, um, presto, you’re blasting TIE fighters coming from your dog.
- The Best Star Wars Video Game - Ever! (chris.pirillo.com)
Advertising/Moblie: When iAds Meet Print Ads
I thought this was a really cool way to engage an audience from a print ad. AXA Insurance in Belgium recently released an iPhone app designed to help people in the event of an accident, and to get their customers attention, they decided to launch it in an innovative kind of way They bought traditional full page print ads, but combined with with a digital twist by mapping out a space to place your iPhone. Once youve got the iPhone into position (and typed in the address should this have been a QR code perhaps?) the add came to life though a video that matched the print ads creative, ultimately telling the story to each reader.
- Audi A1 Beat Driver App Comes Exclusively to the Apple iPad (marketwire.com)
Technology/Mobile: Reactable Mobile
Reactable is an music making system designed for use on large-scale interactive digital surfaces and is now available for mobile use on the iphone and ipad. the mobile version takes the principles of the original reactable and miniaturizes it for use on these devices.
Related articles
- Reactable Brings Interactive Music Making to iOS (macstories.net)
- DIY iPad live performance harness (makezine.com)
Twitter: Transit Purchases via iPhone Swipe
Paying for your subway ride may soon require just a wave of your #iPhone - http://bit.ly/cLHF1L
/via @cdny
Mobile: EpicWin app turns real-life to-do lists into a game
How awesome is this! New iPhone game lets you role-play your way through your to-do list. Makes me want to dust off my 20 sided dice and do my laundry.
To-do lists. We all have them, but that doesn’t mean we have to like them. Getting through a pile of boring chores isn’t all that fun, but an upcoming iPhone app is looking to change that. Dubbed EpicWin, the app aims to merge your to-do list with an RPG, letting you gain experience points and find rare loot as you do the laundry and catch up on e-mail.
Related articles
- Turning a To-Do List Into a Game (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Advertising: NEW iAD DEMO
This is a video that demonstrates the new iAds on the iPhone. This example is for Nissan, one of the first advertisers to use iAds.
- Apple, Armstrong Ads Accelerate 2011 Nissan Leaf Marketing (allcarselectric.com)
- Apple iAds for iOS 4 Now Live and in Action (intomobile.com)
Mobile: Are We Entering the Age of Augmented Trademark Infringement?
App developers use augmented reality to deface British Petroleum’s logo in hopes of turning it against them. The legal ramifications (if any) should be interesting.
Consider a new application being developed in reaction to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The iPhone app - which is still in development - is called “the leak in your hometown,” and will let users augment any existing real-world British Petroleum (BP) logo with a virtually rendered oil pipe that is gushing with oil.
“This repurposing of corporate icons will offer future artists and activists a powerful means of expression which will be easily accessible to the masses and at the same time will be safe and nondestructive,” they say.
- Creative Review - StreetMuseum iPhone app (creativereview.co.uk)
Geolocation: Mobile Geo-Fashion
Geofencing - when the location-aware device of a location-based service (LBS) user enters or exits a geofence, the device receives a generated notification. This notification might contain information about the location of the device.
Enter Lustr, what appears to be the first geo-fencing shopping mobile app to the fashion world. Lustr has collected a database of 2,000 stores and 3,000 brands to partake in this most dangerous app. Think Urban Spoon for the shopper/fashionista with neawly added Foursquare “Special Nearby” deal functionality for participating boutiques. The app is compatible with most smart phone devices but only listings only cover the NY area at this time.
- Is Geofencing the Next Evolution for Location Apps? Location Labs Thinks So (readwriteweb.com)
- “Geofencing” enables new location-based apps, raises privacy concerns (venturebeat.com)
