App for tablets: Touch Van Gogh - What paintings can reveal. Digitally Touch Someone Far Away Using Your Smartphone Screen. Your Halloween Is Sorted With These Gory, iPhone-Enabled Costumes From An Ex-NASA Engineer. Mark Rober was just your average mechanical engineer for NASA, working for seven years helping to build the Mars Rover, when he finally found his true passion: Halloween costumes. In 2011, Rober figured out that, with FaceTime, he could create one of the grislier costumes the human mind had ever conceived: a person with a hole blown through them. By cutting a hole in his shirt and duct-taping one iPad to the front of his shirt, and another to the back, he could use FaceTime to allow people to look right through him. How long did it take Rober to come up with the idea?
"When I first heard Steve Jobs talk about FaceTime, it occurred to me that would be a simple way to blow a hole in your stomach, if you combined them," he tells Co.Create. "Turns out, it worked pretty well. " It did work well--the how-to video that Rober put on YouTube landed him well over three and a half million views, and it launched him on his path to his new career. At least, of course, until your phone's battery dies. SCVNGR. Tag4Life Taps Into College Students' Idealism To Support UNICEF. For many college students, life is an endless flow of frenetic energy that comes from a mix of new found freedom, idealism and self awareness. Let’s tap this energy with a competitive game of tag. Students find out about the game in their online communities, in shops and online stores, and from their friends.
They support Unicef by purchasing a piece of jewelry that features a Microsoft Tag; it might be a necklace, a wristband or a belt buckle. After purchasing students then register their own tag to start a game of ‘tag4life’ with friends. The tagger receives a brief video by a celebrity or another young person. The tags add up, and up. PSFK’s Future of Mobile Tagging report presents key trends in the mobile tagging space, so as to inspire creative agencies about their future use of technologies that include QR codes, barcodes and Microsoft Tags in branding and communication campaigns. PSFK Presents: The Future of Mobile Tagging. Game Penalizes Exercisers For Failing To Get To The Gym [Future Of Gaming]
Duet. Augmented Reality - Top Gear. Augmented reality is dazzling when used appropriately. For example, when a tiny James May from BBC’s “Top Gear” explains why the Model-T is an important milestone in modern history, that’s an appropriately awesome use. The Science Museum in London’s exhibit on the Making of the Modern World looks to be a wonderfully educational experience about how specific technologies have propelled human history forward. And the exhibit gets an interactive boost with the addition of the Science Stories app available for iOS ($3) and Android ($3.20). The app features “Top Gear” host and all-around technology fan James May waxing poetic on why advancements like the Eilean Glas lighthouse and Cray supercomputer deserve a special place in history. The app doesn’t just present video of James May talking — it goes the extra step by delivering a three-dimensional avatar of James May.
The overlay of Mr. In all, you’re provided with all the angles of James May you’ve ever wanted to see. Marvel Launches Augmented Reality Comics. Marvel has announced its new ‘ReEvolution’ initiative with an augmented reality app called Marvel AR that will include digital extras for readers and a digital-only imprint called Infinite Comics, which will offer comics that tie-in with print titles. Marvel AR is a free app that has been developed in partnership with Aurasma. The software allows readers to scan their print comics with the camera of their smartphone or tablet to unlock extras. These will include parts of the writer’s script, editors’ comments and original artwork, and readers can expect around 8 extras per comic. The first offering from Infinite Comics will be an Avengers Vs. X-Men #1 tie-in story starring Nova by Mark Waid and Stuart Immonen. This will be available for purchase on the Marvel Comics app for 99 cents, free with a redemption code found in print copies of Avenger Vs.
The Marvel AR app will be available for iOS and Android smartphone and tablets from April 2nd and Avengers Vs. Marvel. Ikea's Augmented Reality Catalog Will Let You Peek Inside Furniture | Gadget Lab. Ikea’s new app does not come with an allen wrench. Photo: Ikea Ikea prints 211 million copies of its product catalog every year. That’s more than 20 times the population of Sweden, the home of the build-it-yourself furniture empire.
These are impressive numbers for a print catalog in a digital world, but Ikea is now changing with the times with a head-first dive into augmented reality. “A lot digital stuff becomes very interesting when you mash it up with the tangible items of the real world,” said Andreas Dahlqvist, Global Deputy Chief Creative Officer of McCann, the creative agency behind the catalog. Augmented reality features will roll out in the 2013 edition of the print catalog, which will arrive in customers’ mailboxes later this month. When you wave your smartphone over pages with digital content, a variety of features appear. In early 2011, Ikea enlisted McCann to help bridge the gap between paper and digital.
Turn Your Friends Into Memes With This App. Have you ever wanted to turn someone into a meme? Do you know someone who would look perfect with a rage comic for a face? The Memefier App might be exactly what you've been looking for. The app uses facial recognition to superimpose a rage comic over a person's face. The app detects any faces in the scene and automatically sizes a meme to fit give the subject a derpy new head. Select the meme you want to use, point your iPhone towards a person, shoot and voila — you've memefied. While the app isn't always completely accurate (sometimes it will read non-faces as faces), it features a nice selection of memes and is perfect for a good laugh. If you're taking a group shot, you can select "multiple memes" to select which rage faces will show up.
We gave the app a trial run using Mashable employees as test subjects; check out the results in the gallery below. Starbucks Makes Valentine's Day an Augmented Reality. Through AR and digital watermarking, TV viewers see synchronized companion content. Gain instant and exclusive access to over 5,000 of the most creative ideas, innovations and startups on our database and use our smart filters to take you direct to those that are most relevant to your industry and your needs.
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The application includes the Winona County Courthouse, Choate Building, Merchants Bank, Winona City Hall and Winona National Bank. This event is free and open to the public. State Mobile - Winona State University. Campus Map. Winona State Mobile has your pocket map to locations on the Winona Campus for Winona State University. Locations such as dorms, classroom halls, the library, security checkpoints, parking lots and much more are a fingertip away. News Updates. Winona State Mobile is your handheld newsbreaker for everything that Winona State University has to offer. Breaking news, weather, events and more all combined into one for your reading pleasure. Academic Calendar. When is finals week? Events. Winona State Mobile is your guide for Winona State Events, such as Family Weekend, Homecoming, Sporting Events, University Improvement Day.
Faculty and Staff. Need to find someone at Winona State University? Bus Tracker. Ever wonder where your bus is near the Winona State Campus? Athletics. With quick and easy access to Winona State Warrior press releases, Warrior Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, you will find it easy to stay up-to-date with all the latest Warrior accomplishments. Arboretum. WSU Email.