Tesco might not be everybody’s native and first choice when it is about online shopping. This might explain why the world’s 3rd largest retailer offers the Brits the first (mainstream) augmented reality (AR) warehouse. So how does it work? You have to download a plugin (available for Windows and Mac) and print a standardised image […]
After Foursquare had competed with Gowalla for quite a while I almost had got the feeling that they are stuck a little bit and might get lost between Facebook and Google check-ins. But those check-ins sucked as a standalone and Foursquare came back with a whole series of excellent innovations which I find quite remarkable. […]
Advertising agency Zeus Jones has recently created a really nice HTML5 app around the topic “whisky” (which is basically an ad for the agency itself). The app is called “Proof”, it’s free and it’s and a mixture of a game and interactive discovery with the goal of becoming a proper whisky connoisseur. In fact, the […]
Julian Birkinshaw (Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business school) with a brief but good talk about the importance of agility in a general & strategic enterprice context. He uses the Icelandic volcano eruption to explain how important it is to become more responsive and adaptive. Core strategies need to be changeable and the time of […]
A while ago a had quite a bit of fun playing with the iPhone app Trimensional. The app basically wants you to take a picture of yourself giving you some instructions how to do it best. Based on the photo it calculates a 3D model of your face and the results are actually not too […]
What if buttons could morph out of the surface of your device? Tactus Technology has developed a new tactile user interface for touchscreen devices that does exactly that. Tactus provides a new dimension to touchscreens by enabling real, physical buttons that rise up from the surface on demand, and then recede back into the screen, […]
