Lynn
Food lover, tech freak
Explore more. Web pages, photos, and videos | StumbleUpon.com. Tue, 01/31/2012. DIEPPA RESTREPO. Gorgeous Travel Planner Shows Times, Rather Than Distances. Kill your maps. They’re useless. What you need, says Vincent Meertens, a recent graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, are time maps. “Everybody thinks in time rather than distance,” he tells Co.Design in an email. “That is what TimeMaps is about: putting time in a map and letting go of the distance.” It might sound counterintuitive at first--a map that’s unconcerned with actual geography? --but think about the last time you had to get somewhere quickly in a foreign country or even your own city.
And that’s what TimeMaps would reveal. Most importantly, the map is live. At the moment, TimeMaps only details train trips. Which prompts the question: What does TimeMaps offer that HopStop does not? And it might make its way to the states soon. TimeMaps was nominated for the Brains Eindhoven award, which recognizes innovative student work, and is up for the public prize.
[Images courtesy of Vincent Meertens] Location-Based Shopping App Shopkick Now 3 Million Users Strong; 1B Deals Viewed. Shopkick, an innovative geo-coupon system that is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, SV Angel and others, is debuting a number of momentum numbers today. The startup’s service now has 3 million active users, up from 2.3 million active users in September. Here’s how Shopkicks works. Instead of checking in, as you would with a geo app like Foursquare, Shopkick automatically recognizes when someone with the free Android or iPhone app on their phone walks into a store. Once a Shopkick Signal is detected, the app delivers reward points called “kicks” to the user for walking into a retail store, trying on clothes, scanning a barcode and other actions. Kickbucks can then be redeemed across all partner stores for gift card rewards or for Facebook Credits. To date, Shopkick has seen 1 billion in-app deals and offers viewed, and as of December, saw 5 million walk-ins to partner stores, doubling in four months.
Travel. Welcome to YMEE - Creative. Design. Technology. Broadcast Yourself. Twitter / Home. Grooveshark - Free Music Streaming, Online Music. See ‘n Scan: Chameleon Pen Lets You Copy Nature’s Colors. The real world is full of some of the most vibrant, beautiful colors imaginable. Artists can recreate just about all of those colors with the right tools, but what if you’re not an artist, want to sketch something quickly, or you don’t have a full set of colors with you? The Color Picker, a fabulously fanciful concept from designer Jinsun Park, could be the answer. The pen has a color sensor on one end that, when the corresponding button is pressed, will pick up the desired color. The internal RGB (red, green and blue) inks mix to create an exact match, and the pen then draws with the color you’ve plucked right from nature.
It’s just like the Photoshop “eyedropper” tool for real life. The pen would be more precise with CMYK inks, and keeping the colors and batteries filled would be a challenge for a product like this if it ever went into production. Dashboard | Memrise - the fun way to learn anything. Gmail: Email from Google.
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