8 million tons of plastic is dumped into the ocean every year.
For years, recycling plastic has been nearly impossible. There are many different compounds and it’s hard to tell which is which. As a result most plastic became landfill ending up in the ocean. Now that we can, we shouldn’t recycle ocean plastic into things that will become waste. They might just end up in the ocean again. Instead we should make it into something durable. Something no one throws away. Ever.
On an international scale, German airline Lufthansa's Innovation Lab recently launched Yilu, an app that allows travellers to book the entirety of their journey from door to door, including all flights and airport transfers, from taxis to trains and coaches.
Make, Play, and Discover with Nintendo Labo! Have fun making DIY cardboard creations called Toy-Con, bring them to life with the technology of the Nintendo S...
Fashion shows are normally a spectacle, featuring luxuriant fabrics and ground-breaking designs. This London Fashion Week, one show will be a little different. Sure, there will be models and clothes, but the space above their heads will be animated with dramatic lightning bolts, smiling tiger heads and laughing skulls, taunting the audience.
Some robots are designed to build cars. Others are meant to perform surgery or help astronauts in space. The Lovot, however, has a far simpler and adorable m...
Japanese company is developing robots to replace pets to combat increasing loneliness brought on by millennial culture.
Meet Gaëlle Mourre, director of Mechanical Souls, playing in the New Frontier Program at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. https://www.sundance.org/projects/m...
Our collection of Indian moss frames includes handcrafted moss board arts. Perfect addition to your naturalist home decor. Get yours here: https://www.urelas...
Trailer/teaser for our immersive experience premiering this week at SXSX! This piece tells a compelling narrative through blending CG and 360 video into an i...
The Surrogate is a narrative Virtual Reality experience that melds 360 video and a computer-generated explorable environment using an innovative technique called Immersive Hemispheres. The contemporary story is set in the near future and melds form and content through its exploration of a world that is rich with visual information and sensory stimuli.
My phone capturing my phone augmenting the exhibit of The Dial at Sundance. Project Info on The Dial at https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2019-festival-new...
BEST INTERACTIVE MECHANIC: THE DIAL
Created by: Peter Flaherty, Jesse Garrison
The Dial is a complex and interestingly old-school take on augmented reality, laying out a bleak murder mystery as a tabletop diorama. The experience involves three people staring through phones at a dollhouse made of blank paper. The house is textured with images from an overhead projector, and on a phone’s screen, the scene is overlaid with props and people, creating two complementary layers on top of a physical object.
The phones aren’t just for viewing the story. One person is tasked with “navigating” the experience. As they walk circles around the house, their phone detects the motion and changes scenes, as though the navigator is a hand on a clock. It creates a sense of agency and responsibility throughout the story, which is largely about characters who feel powerless to take action after a woman’s mysterious death.
25 million people played Apex Legends during its first week – here’s how they spent their time. Apex Legends™ is a free-to-play battle royale game where lege...
So another behaviour to look out for!
Fortnite, the game that was so popular it had its own ingame half time concert broadcast at the SuperBowl 2019, has had a rival game steal 25M players from since then. Apex Legends, another battle royale game, has accumulated 25M users in its opening week and could become another part of 2019 pop culture.
This shows an audience who are keen to be the first on the next best thing.
You may already know this but TikTok is a social media app that became No 4 highest downloads 2018. Massive in Asia and growing worldwide, it’s a lipsyncing app which you can use licensed music to sing to and also sample other users soundbytes. It’s forcing Snapchat to follow suit and integrate licensed music into their apps too. 2019 looks big for music in social. Check out one of it’s memes of 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwOew-ycjP0
Interesting that this app is simply playing on our human need to express ourselves in a way similar to putting our favourite song on myspace.
Nyango Star is one of Japan’s most popular mascots, but you might know him best as a meme. He’s an apple that’s been inhabited by the spirit of a dead cat, a...
From AdWeek this behind the scenes of Spike Jonze’s Apple Ad for HomePod is as fascinating as the film Itself. Incredible to see how much of this short film ...
