Innovation

Ads that do stuff Part 2

Concerto Timer: is an advertisement created for Häagen-Dazs by Goodby Silverstein and Jam3 that puts two classical performers atop your ice cream pint while viewed through their iOS app.  If you have two pints, you get two performers. The performers play for 2 minutes, the ideal time to have your ice-cream sit in room temperature to become perfect for consumption. It might also get you to buy two pints...

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MODERN STUDIO.

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From 1993-1997 I went to Syracuse University, I was in the Computer Graphics program a unique program that connected Computer Science with Art. While i was there I met Jeff Linnell.  I haven't ever really had the opportunity to work with Jeff, but have run into him over the years. It has been amazing seeing what he and his team are doing with computer controlled cameras and technology, such an inspiration.

Check out this brand film recently released for Adobe CS6., really inspiring.

BUILDING A BETTER MICROWAVE.

 ( via TechCrunch )

New Features:

  • Clock sets/updates itself across the Internet
  • A barcode scanner pulls cooking instructions from an online database. Such a database didn’t actually exist, so he’s building one himself, adding directions as he goes.
  • Voice Commands, like “Microwave, Twenty seconds, Low.” (Alas, Nathan says his kitchen’s acoustics screw this up a bit.)
  • Custom sound effects (because beeps are for chumps).
  • You can control the microwave from your phone. The only uses I can think of for this are: when you know you’ll want microwaved popcorn later and can preload a bag, or when you want to convince your friends that you’re the biggest geek on the planet because you have a microwave that you can control with your phone.
  • It tweets when it’s done cooking, because of course it does.

 

Check out Nathan's site here. madebynathan.com

 

And while we are talking about microwaves, check out this art created by microwaving objects on simple white plates before and after presented as animated gifs.  ( via Microwhat )

MARRY WHO YOU LOVE.

Today marks a pretty special day in the land that is geographically debarked as The United States of America. 

The Supreme Court dismissed a case today regarding California's Proposition 8 gay marriage ban. Their decision makes same-sex marriage legal again in the state, but also opts against ruling more broadly on the issue of gay marriage.

It's pretty amazing to be living in a place that is still being defined through the participation of it's citizens. To think that new freedoms, are becoming available on this american soil. 

A friend of ours who is doing work to support The American Foundation for Equal Rights, shared these photos of people on the ground in Washington DC supporting this  cause.

 

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