Public Ad Campaign, an organization that is opposed to outdoor advertising, has created an augmented reality mobile app that replaces the billboards in Time Square with artwork (see the app in action at a recent public beta test). Public Ad Campaign and collaborator The Heavy Projects hope to expand the app in order to takeover billboards in other public spaces.
This is a great idea but the irony is advertisers will use the same technology to surround us all with bepsoke adverts!
It’s all just a bit too accurate… and while we’re at it Apple, please give me Flash support and an iTunes that works! Btw there is an ad before the main feature
via Maketh although at least Apple are giving some iPad owners a partial refund.
ArsTechnica have recently posted an article about “Tiny Wings” commenting on it’s small file size and instant gameplay. For me, it has one of the most beautiful & endearing promotional videos so far this year.
I’m buying “Tiny Wings” just now and will report back later… via ArsTechnica
Keeping with the space theme NASA recently caught amazing images of a “monster prominence erupts from the sun”. Its amazing footage and we need some bright spark to put in the dot to represent Earth on there.
Seeing as solar flare effect satelites expect a few problems Tweeting while on the move over the next week!
In an attempt to get with “da kids” (probably) and find out what folk in Detroit want to improve in their fair(ly dangerous) city, Mayor Dave Bing asked for comments and suggestions on Twitter:
Totally missed opportunity in my opinion, although I wonder if he’d be okay with an ED-209 statue?
Autio correction – you cant live without it on the iPhone. Turn it off and you’ll realise those thick stumps you call fingers can’t type that well on the touch screen. Leave it on and you’ll quite often send messages that you didnt intend, like the examples below! Enjoy and if you’re easily offended don’t click!
You may have noticed a few days ago it was a rather special date – 10:10 10.10.2010! I’m a bit of a sucker for these types of patterns so I always try to record them in some way or another.
However all my planning and anticipation normally means I miss out on the whole thing! The same was true this time as my anticipation for the day started a month before when I googled the date.
From weddings to environmental protests to (another) Y2K style disaster there was lot happening on the tens. I kept it simple downloading the digital clock app and watching the seconds tick by, ready to screen shot it on my iPhone
In case you don’t know you can screenshot whatever is on your iphone screen by holding the home and pressing the power button at the same time. I tested the button presses making sure I didn’t release too early, or close the digital clock app.
At 10:10:05 on the 10.10.2010 I held the home button and at 10:09 the f%}king “voice control” turned on!!!
I quickly closed it and screen shot and caught…. 10:10:11!?! Aghhhhhh. Talk about bad timing and it happened to me before on the 01.01.01 01.01.2001 – although that’s just cause I got it wrong because I was drunk.
Thankfully I jumped into a different time Zone and caught what I wanted to first time around 
Today I had the Apple customer experience and it was without a doubt slick, efficient and, dare I type… cool?
But cool is accurate! And I’ll explain why after a brief explanation of how I got here.
I’d always been frustrated that Apple 15inch MacBooks were limited to a lower resolution (1440).
Thankfully the new selection has a high res option, catching up with PC laptops that have been their for years.
The problem with the high res mac, however was the price; 1919 quid and I just couldn’t condone that kind of cost for Ping at the moment.
However, I had a backup, the Apple refurb store. The only problem with that, however, I needed the latest model to get refurbished. And that’s where my (miser) patience kicked in.
And by golly it paid off. By waiting a few months I ended up saving hundreds of pounds! And you know what, the MacBook is immaculate!
I was prepared and expecting some dints, dents and general wear and tear. I was even expecting it to be a bit clunky regarding packaging but not in the slightest.
A well packaged, ready to go MacBook Pro is what I received, the only difference was a generic white box but that could be due to the order going through online.
From power on to signing in, this is what Apple does so very well. Absolutely seamless, usable and beautifully crafted design, interface and experience.
If Ping can accomplish half of what Apple does with it’s customer experience we are on to a good thing indeed – disregarding any antenna issues of course.
Then Ping can pick up some cool points too.
I’ve finally found time to upgrade my blog and add a few more plugins – the twitter feed over on the right and social networking links below each post!
There has been such a phenomenal push over the past few years to intergrate blogs, sites, social networks and mobile devices but only recently has it started to work successfully. I now have feeds bounces from Twitter to Linked In to Facebook while being able to update this blog via mobile is a real bonus!
Talk about connected!
Phenomenal