The potential in printing electronics: Video from TED2013
This is REALLY COOL… and a great story of perseverance and ingenuity! Kate Stone: The potential in printing electronics Kate Stone is the Founder and Managing Director of Novalia, a company that specializes in interactive printing. Her work combines physical prints with digital electronics. via Watch “Kate Stone: The potential in printing electronics” Video at […]
SOLAR POWERED Annual report!
Genius! Solar energy is the main business of our client Austria Solar. We thought about how we could put this energy to paper. The result: the first annual report powered by the sun. Its content remains invisible until sunlight falls on its pages. See more on Behance
QRmovie Integrates QR Codes Into A Moving Image
Roger Smolski over at 2D Code never disappoints when it comes to spreading the word on QR, especially new applications and technologies surrounding them. If you don’t follow him on Twitter, you should @RogerSmolski. Here is his latest find… by Roger Smolski Nerdindustries (great name!), a German innovation lab based in Hamburg have developed a software […]
Free Wi-fi, Friend or Foe? [infographic]
via Free Wi-fi, Friend or Foe? [infographic]. As mobile devices become more and more popular the demand for easy access to wi-fi increases as well. It is already pretty easy to access wi-fi in most places including coffee shops, restaurants, the mechanics, etc. Access to wifi will only become wider spread and easier to access especially […]
App Has Beer Fans Seeing Gnomes with Augmented Reality Coasters
Oops – a little late on this one since Gnome week was June 6-9th. Still cute – unless it’s 3am and the Gnomes start looking a little too good, leading to the World’s Smallest Walk of Shame! A small Belgian beer brand is hoping little creatures help it make a big splash across the U.S. […]
Ad Agency Rethinks Coffee Cup Sleeves As Newspapers
This campaign will be added to my list of things I wish I came up with. The brilliance here is that the initial audience is already there – coffee drinkers. They don’t have to first create coffee drinkers/customers/fans etc. The campaign only enhances the experience of having your coffee, which you are already having! This […]
Mobile Control of Duplo Machines? Yep, There's an APP for That
Im catching up a bit on posts since PMC had hack aftermath over the last week+, and this is one I saved to share. I read yesterday that this machine will be at Graph Expo! That is cool to see it in action, but not being a Printer or a Finisher, seems weird to me […]
Cross Media Creates World's Largest Shoe Store
Take some scanners and a large digital screen, add a healthy amount of Augmented Reality and mix vigorously with Social Media. When compete, scan QR code, proceed directly to mobile checkout, and enjoy your news shoes the next day. You now have the recipe for buying shoes while waiting for your train.
Popular Science Enlists Augmented Reality To Bridge Printed Page, Digital World
It’s awesome that the publishing industry is adopting AR as another link between print and digital, and Im grateful they are being open minded. But I have to say, it’s just the beginning with the next step being Intelligent Print Recognition. There are many differences, and some similarities, but ultimately iPR(tm) provides a relationship with […]
1/1 Interview with Ken Blakeslee on Augmented Reality, the AR Summit, and Killing Mobile Phones!
There are many awesome aspects of being a media sponsor for an event, but access to people I wouldn’t normally have access to, does top my list. Enter Ken Blakeslee, one of Europe’s leading experts on Mobile Services and Applications, and Chairman of the Augmented Reality Summit, an all day conference on all things AR, June […]
Penguin Books and Zappar Bring Augmented Reality to Print
Dear Mobile Industry, As a member of the Print Industry I would like you to consider the following before declaring some sort of victory in the form of an editorial end-zone dance when the game has only just begun. First of all, Print isn’t attempting to compete with you, or technology. We are part of […]
Infographic: E-Books in America
I rarely consider myself a traditionalist, but when it comes to books I do prefer mine the old fashion way, or so I thought. Im not questioning the ink on paper part, Im questioning my thought that my preference is old fashioned – aka out of date, not cool etc. Have I been e-brainwashed to […]
