The Royal Netherlands Navy and Air Force are hosting their ‘Open days’ this summer. We developed two apps that also provide a playful way to get to know the armed forces. Incl. a QR game on the days itself.
Remember scrolling and dragging through all those awesome 360 video capture examples? You’ll be able to do it yourself with your iPhone 4 when you attach the Dot. A pocketable 360º lens for your iPhone 4. The quality is (much) lower than Yellowbird, but the examples still look promising.
Cool facebook-campaign by Axe Tunesia. They created a Facebook app that lets guys change their Facebook relationship status to the one they’re all dreaming of.
To celebrate the opening of new museum MAS in Antwerp, they’ve introduced the Phygital Tour. This is a digital ‘live video tour’ offered by a physical guide at the museum that you get to control online. Pretty cool and relevant offline online combo.
To promote its current Wim Crouwel exhibition, the Design Museum in London created the Crouwelclock; an alarm clock for the iPhone featuring graphics of the Dutch graphic designer. If you’ve ever wanted to be woken by designery good wishes, this is the app for you; it features three personal Crouwel messages as alarms.
NoWhereElse.fr made this nice ‘Complete iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup’ document in which all the rumors about the new iPhone are collected and presented in a nice way. I’m still running with iPhone nr. 3 and thinking about buying a new one. Should I wait for the 5?
Hasbro released this übercool device that brings 3D and 360° entertainment to your iPhone or iPod touch. Just snap it into the MY3D device and download specially-formatted MY3D apps from the App Store. I am ordering one now!
If you’re looking for a sophisticated bag for your laptop or a smart weekender and you want to browse a bit further than the boring usual suspects you might want to check out the new webstore UNDSCVRD that our friend and style-conscious human being Matt Tielman just started.
National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists and engineers successfully launched a life size house with 300 coloured helium balloons in Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The filming of the event will be part of a new National Geographic Channel series called How Hard Can it Be?, which will premier in fall 2011.
To post something on 11/1/11 should be about a thing that really loves that number 1 position. What else would fit better than this brandnew Porsche 918 RSR. It’s a hybrid race car, 767 combined horsepower. Porsche has partnered its V8 with two electric motors (75 kw each). It stores braking energy in a awesome huge flywheel accumulator stationed where the other seat would be.
Nice product designs by Antrepo in which they mix form and function of different objects to create something new. You can find a selection of their work as a blog post on the brandnew inspiration blog Defringe.com.
Fresh from the press! The most read Dutch soccer magazine Voetbal International released their iPad app designed by Resoluut, handcoded by The Saints. It’s not just another magazine going to tablet. You can use it as a second screen with the latest updates, video’s and minute-to-minutes.
Grabarz und partner made a very nice banner and they won a silver Eurobest as well! Nicely done!
The Swedish Post helps you create your own unique Christmas postcard. They set up 4 live cameras on mountain Funäsdalsberget to create a scenic setting, including snow and reindeers. Nice!
The Dutch Viva magazine is coming to iPad. Designed by Resoluut the app will be available from tomorrow on.
Looking for a Sinterklaas or Christmas present? Maybe hop by Print-process for some empty wall candy. Print-process is the more affordable alternative to online print shop Blanka. The image on the left is a detail from a poster by John Taylor who made a series of prints based on famous film posters only using minimal blocks.
Last week I have tested the Samsung Galaxy Tab for their Ideas in Movement project. The Tab is a tablet and phone in one, that runs on Android, shows flash and rocks two camera’s. As an Apple user Android takes some time to get used to. And calling with a big*ss phone pushed against your face looks a bit strange,
Frank-ly points at this cool project, started in New York City. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. People are ‘injecting’ USB sticks into walls, buildings and curbs, open for the public to find or share files. Wonder when the first dead drop will pop-up in Amsterdam.
If you’re a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you’re a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you’re a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Had a lot of fun reading this little book; All My Friends Are Dead by Jory John and Avery Monsen.
From those fine Austrian craftsmen of Hard Graft comes the sweet All Grey Phone Fold Wallet and the All Grey Tilt iPad Case as a limited edition follow up to that other fine Tilt iPad Case. Both in 100% wool and premium vegetable tanned leather. Check out their tasteful full range of cases and bags. Those mountains do inspire.
Some of you discovered it already, we created an iPhone app for NewWork. You can download the finetuned 1.1 version now for free. It comes with a new category called ‘Apps’, only visible in the app itself. In here we post about new Apps just for the device you’re watching it on and give direct links to the App Store. We hope you’ll like it!
To promote the new Selected store, Freshcotton teamed up with a group of influential bloggers. The bloggers created an editorial for fashion magazine BLEND, which will be in the October edition. Concept by First :)
If Krink can paint a car so can Caligraffiti artist Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman. Mercedes supplied a B-Class which he covers with hundreds of women’s names symbolizing all the dutch women the Pink Ribbon Foundation works for.
Basically the Parrot AR.Drone is all you ever wanted. This is the first quadricopter that can be controlled by an iPhone. It has two camera’s and it’s own wi-fi network onboard, so you can play with it outside and inside.
Here’s one for Apple fanboys and -girls with cooking skills. Product designers THISMADE from Basel Switzerland offer a Macbook Pro styled cuttingboard made from apple tree wood. Awesome!
Bike by me makes it possible to create a bike in your own favorite colour scheme. The site works pretty simple; pick a colour for each part, choose your frame size and order your bike online. Delivery time in Europe is about 2-5 business days. Delivery time worldwide is 4-9 days. But how’s the ride?
Cyglo tyre is a new idea on cycling safety. Switched using a motion sensor within the tyre, high powered and durable LED bulbs are built into the tread of the tyre, so when the wheel turns at speed, a ring of light is formed whilst continually and perpetually creating its own power.
There’s a competition going on to rebrand the US Dollar. This is the entry from the UK/US agency Dowling Duncan. I love the idea of the vertical format.