This week has apps to make your work-out fun, a look at what Earth looks like from Santa’s POV, groovy new websites and social platforms and some very cool interaction with surfaces, video and more! For daily updates, follow @tomeslinger on Twitter!
Fitocracy | Turn your work-out into a social game
We should no longer have to do anything mundane anymore since we have smartphones, apps and lots of people trying to gamify everything. If you’re bored with your work-out and you love your EpicWin app, you might need Fitocracy.
Trippy Time-Lapse Video of Earth from ISS
At this time of year, I find myself humbled by many things. When I saw this video of the Earth from the heavens, edited by Michael Konig, this topped my list of holiday-season-humblers. This is what it looks like from Santa’s Sleigh!!! Isn’t it great to be alive???
Audi Interactive Installation at Art Basel Miami
Beautifully crafted and perfectly placed at the flashpoint of modern art coolness recently at Art Basel Miami, this is billed as the imagining of digital driving surfaces in the future. I say ‘uh, yes please!’
One Time Secret
There’s a game in here somewhere …Enter your clandestine content in the One Time Secret text box and with the click of a button you’ll generate a one-use-only link to your secret message.
Kinectic Poetry
Airclicker: Finger and Gesture Navigation
Imagine twiddling your fingers in the air and making stuff happen on screens, augmented reality and just about any digital thing?
Airclicker shows what it’s going to be like when we don’t need screens to slide our fingers across in the (near) future – just some funky rings or sub-dermal implants in your fingernails.
Interactive Projections and Installations | Lichtfaktor
A collective of artists, designers, technicians and apparently really cool visual digital folks,
Lichtfaktor creates interactive projections (and lots of other stuff on their website) that are drop-dead, teeth-gnashingly cool.
Samsung Flexible AMOLED Technology
No release date yet, but Samsung’s demo video for their
Flexible AMOLED Technology shows a transparent gadget which builds on existing touchscreen technology, incorporating text recognition, camera functions and a funky flexibility. NICE!
Match: Mixing Video and Social
There are piles of ways to find out what to watch, but instead of using ratings and ‘other people’ to figure out what you might like, just-out-of-Beta
social video platform Matcha can sort content by the what’s newest, most popular, highly recommended (based on what programs you mark with a thumbs-up), or what your friends are watching. Once you’ve found what you’d like to stream, Matcha provides links to begin watching immediately.
Matcha’s blog has interesting updates and behind-the-scenes look at making the service.
Tunes: Cocaine | The Internet (Little Dragon Remix)
I likes me some Odd Future and I loves me the Internet, so when I found out they had a spin-off ‘group’ called
THE INTERNET, I was in. Here’s my techno naughty pleasure Little Dragon remixing their tune
Cocaine.