Cool Hunting
| 17 August 2004view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Photo Tiles
by Josh Rubin
Photo Form makes Bas-relief tiles from any image you send them. There are lots of great texture examples on their site, but my favorite is this one made from an arial photo. The Arizona based company uses their own patent pending Photo Cast technology to make the tiles. They can be ordered in a wide variety of finishes. After dorking out and making ones of my dogs, I think I'd go for something Erwin Hauer inspired.
via mocoloco
Event Based Mobile Participation, by Upoc Networks
by Josh Rubin
Here at Upoc Networks we're proud to announce that participants have sent over 1 million messages during the event based mobile promotions that we've enabled this year. By voting for the MVP of a ball game or sending picture messages to the big screen at a concert, we're helping North Americans learn how to have more fun with their mobile phones.
Genevieve Bell: Other Internets
by Josh Rubin
Intel's Genevieve Bell is nearing completion of her 3 year long study on the role technology plays in Asian culture. The anthropologist shadowed families and individuals in India, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China and Korea and learned first hand many important factoids for designers and engineers alike.
During her travels, Ms. Bell found people in China who take their mobile phones to a temple to be blessed, Muslims who used the GPS capabilities of their phones to locate Mecca for their prayers and Asian families who burned paper cell phone offerings for their ancestors to use in the next world.
Janet Rae-Dupree, San Jose Business Journal
But these anecdotes are just a few of the ones related specifically to mobile phones. Her study goes much deeper with the intent of helping to foster a better understanding of how technology fits in to the Asian lifestyle. The MIT Press will be publishing Bell's work under the title Other Internets.
via Smart Mobs
Touch Graph Google Browser
by Josh Rubin
Enter a URL in the Touch Graph Google Browser and get a 3D visualization of all the links in and out of that site. Another fun visualization of the world of Google.
