Martin, a robotics researcher friend of mine, showed me this video at the weekend:
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
It certainly got us talking about where augmented reality may be headed, particularly for advertising. While the video is perhaps a little over exaggerated, the technology is rapidly getting there. Take, for example, the new augmented-reality mapping from Microsoft:
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this has made my day. nice work, Infinity Productions.
Check out the site to see the little hamster auditions – i love the mini boom.
via creative review
Yes yes, the big idea is important. And yeah, its good be innovative. But maybe sometimes all you need is some existing functionality and a bunch of free stuff. People love free stuff. Via Crack Unit
Nice little stunt in the street outside Sony HQ in Great Marlborough Street - Watchdog has a van parked up full of engineers who are repairing PlayStations for free to bring attention to Sony's charging policy.
This kind of consumer direct action reminds me of a Milton Jones' joke - available I believe on a nice shiny DVD just in time for Christmas.
"I went to our local train station and they told me 'There's a bus replacement service running today.' So I gave them a tin of pineapple rings. 'What's this?' 'It's my money replacement service.'
Speaking as someone whose last meal was the all-you-can-eat buffet at Pizza Hut in Victoria, Diana Janicki's blog Growling Belly is a glimpse into a magical fairytale land where food is lovingly prepared and eaten with proper relish (and where relish does not equal bacon bits).
As I salivated over the "foolproof" recipe for pavlova with fresh summer berries I did worry that even my pizza-enhanced frame might struggle with the combined calorie load of meringue, whipping cream and sugar.
And astonishingly Google's content matching algorithm agrees with me - dropping in a banner for a weight-loss product into the recipe.
Hmmm. Good thinking Google!
Of course if you really did want to lose weight, in the words of the old Irish joke, you wouldn't want to be starting from here!
Speaking as someone whose last meal was a the all-you-can-eat buffet at the Pizza Hut in Victoria, Diana Janicki’s blog Growling Belly is a glimpse into a magical fairytale land where food is lovingly prepared and eaten with proper relish (and where relish does not equal bacon bits).
As I salivated over the “foolproof†recipe for pavlova with fresh summer berries I did worry that even my pizza-enhanced frame might struggle with the combined calorie load of meringue, whipping cream and sugar.
And astonishingly Google’s content matching algorithm agrees with me – dropping in a banner for a weight-loss product into the recipe.
Hmmm. Good thinking Google!
Of course if you really did want to lose weight, in the words of the old Irish joke, you wouldn’t want to be starting from here!
Oh good! Now the horribly creepy face of the Colonel can bee seen from space, or more easily, from Google Earth.
The temporary giant image was created out of tiles in the town of Rachel, Nevada back in 2006, but has only recently found its way onto the default layer of Google Earth. Not sure which agency was behind it though (perhaps someone might fill me in?).
A different kind of agency should have a different kind of website.
link via @michaelnobbs
The more i see this ad, the more I love it. Worms in the fridge, pigeons reading the news, hats with room for a beak…. good work BBH.
Ive just been handed a disembodied finger on Tottenham Court Road. Better impact than a boring old flyer and i didn’t even forget the URL. A quirky way of getting me thinking about safe tape! 
