Archive for January 2010
Gaming will never be the same again
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Did I mention it is all about the details?
We think details make all the difference. This awesome donkey piñata is part of an activity that Jung carried out during this week.
Viva el Showroom blog!
Augmented Reality T-Shirt ...
... that plays the game of Rock, Paper and Scissors via the web. Visit t-post.se
FWA Site Of The Year 2009
Site Of The Year: http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/
People's Choice Award: http://soytuaire.labuat.com/
Practical implementation of AR
You have probably already heard of Augmented Reality, one of many buzz words of 2009. It's basically an application with a view of the real world merged with generated graphics reacting to the environment.
Most of its implementations I've come across so far seems to often tend to the nature of games and entertainment. But the other day I ran across an article about some guys at Columbia University’s Computer Graphics and User Interface Lab which had developed an Android based AR application that helps US Marines to repair military vehicles. Read more about it here. There is also a video available on YouTube:
Everywhere I look there's LEGO
The kids love it.
Facebook is for girls
Photo: Cynthia Marie Photography
Canadien ice hockey player Lee Goren got traded from Swedish team Färjestad earlier this week after he had started a Facebook brawl with a supporter.
Goren had told the supporter to go to hell and that he would shove his fist down the supporter's throat. The story upset Goren's team enough to send him to Switzerland and get Slovak Lubos Bartecko in return.
When asked about the Facebook incident Bartecko told local news paper Wermlandstidningen, that he wouldn't get into similar trouble since he doesn't have a Facebook page. His wife does. Facebook is for girls, Bartecko says.
Swedish politician finds out Facebook is the real social media world
Photo: Daniel Zanini H.
The press secretary of the Swedish prime minister is in deep doo-doo after Facebooking about how amazing immigrants are, since a Russian cleaning lady had cleaned up after someone had defecated in the stairways of the press secretary's apartment.
2010 is an election year in Sweden and this time social media is for real, whether you want it or not. The press secretary is on paternity leave and probably thought his Facebook was his own part of social media – not the REAL social media world. It was.