If you work in mobile, or just want to get up to speed on the industry, where it has come from and the state of play today then I recommend taking a look at these presentations by Bryan Rieger and Brian Fling.
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Check out this wallet from Dunhill which not only uses a fingerprint reader (or hammer if finger is unavailable) to unlock and open, but can also be linked to your mobile phone via Bluetooth, sounding an alarm if the two are separated by more than 5 metres.
Price: $825.
I think I’ll just wait for Google and Apple to make my phone a wallet.
[Via Uncreate]
There’s been so many cool vending machines in the press lately that before I can do a post about one, something else comes out that’s just as good.
Here’s a list of my favourites.
Vending machine with facial recognition
Sensors allow this Japanese vending machine to “determine the characteristics of an approaching customer”, this allows it to make drink recommednations based on the customers gender!
It also makes drink suggestions based on time and weather. Oh and it has a 47-inch touchscreen.
You can pay for drinks using your mobile phone too. Apparently this badboy gets three times more sales than other vending machines, people even form queues to have a go.
Love the UI too.
[Via Adverlab]
Coca-Cola eco-friendly vending machines
Due to hit Japan this year, these vending machines have solar panels which make them cheaper to run, these savings will apparently be passed onto consumers and help bring down the cost of the sugery goodness it dispenses.
[Via Greenpacks]
Live crab vending machine
No fancy tech in this one, just live crabs. If your crab turns out to be dead then the machine owner will sort you out three free live crabs to say sorry. Nom nom nom.
[Via Boing Boing]
Vending machine puts films onto usb
Nice alternative to Bit Torrent.
[Via Trend Hunter]
I’ve spent most of the afternoon flicking through dozens of mobile websites on the fantastic Mobile Awesomeness (make sure you take a look) and stumbled across this gem.
One Trick Pony is a creative ad agency based in the small town of Hammonton, NJ. What’s interesting is they don’t specifically tout mobile as one of the services they offer, even though their own agency site is one of the nicest I’ve seen.
Apparently Hammonton is ‘The Blueberry Capital Of The World” which might explain the blueberry eating contest theme of the second mobile site.
If you’ve got a iPhone or Android head to www.1trickpony.com and www.1trickpony.com/blueberries or use the QR codes below if you hate typing.
Lovely stuff.
This is a little bit mindblowing
Quite possibly my favourite website of the year, not just because I have the sense of humour of a 4 year-old.
World Toilet Day is coming up on November 19th and to raise awareness of the 2.5 billion people who don’t have a proper toilet, Domestos has put toegther this Flush Tracker, which erm, basically tracks the journey of your number 2 across the sewers of the UK.
Once you set your poop flush start time and location, you’ll get speed and distance stats as well as watching your flush make its way across Google Maps. I watched mine go from the MIG offices in Waterloo, past my flat in Streatham then got a email notification from Domestos about one hour later telling me it had reached its destination 9 miles away at Beddington Farmlands Landfill Site Sutton.
It’s just like the epic journey in Finding Nemo..
Click here to track your flush.
Here’s another concept phone designed by Jeremy Innes-Hopkins for a student client project for Nokia at Central Saint Martins. The brief was to design a playful phone for 2012.
The phone is called Nokia Kinetic, here’s the run down:
“Nokia Kinetic is a magical mobile phone that makes receiving a call, text, email or alarm more playful by converting digital information into kinetic movement.
An electromagnet in the base of the phone allows a weight to be shifted, which causes the phone to stand up. This gives the user a visual clue to check their phone in a very playful way” Read more…
I spent the majority of Saturday morning looking around for creative inspiration to help me redesign the blog and I ended up coming across so many brilliant ideas and articles that I only spent 30mins doing any design.
Here’s one of those ideas, a interesting concept phone from Tamer Koseli called Need. The dual screen touch device is for carrying in your bag rather than in a pocket as “the product becomes more precious. In this way emotional connection between users and product is created”
One side of the phone is a touchscreen and the other is OLED, used purely for customisation.
View more images here.
Stubbled across this interesting idea by artist/designer Josh Nimoy, I’m not quite sure about its purpose, all I can say is that it was weirdly satisifising and fun so you should give it a try.
You basically draw lines, and balls drop onto those lines creating a sound, different lines create different sounds, more and more balls drop creating more and more sound…and that’s kinda it!
Try it out for yourself
Android users – go to market place and search for BallDroppings Lite
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