According to Sony Worldwide Studios chief Shuhei Yoshida, platform holders will be able to offer “almost dangerous kinds of interactivity” with the player within the next ten years. Games will know more about the player on a whole, know how they could be feeling by reading more than just player movements. Titles will be so [...]
Continue reading Sony Says Games Will Read Emotions in 10 Years Featured in PSFK’s Future of Retail report is the following two concepts that utilise Microsoft Kinect‘s gesture-tracking technology: “Fashion retailer Nordstrom created a digital window display at it’s Seattle flagship store that allowed pedestrains to virtually paint on the glass. The technology captured hand gestures and converted these actions into corresponding white streaks that appeared [...]
Continue reading Retail meets with Mircosoft Kinect QR code specialists SET Japan have designed international versions of a code that links to local RED CROSS donation sites, specially for the use of smart phones. Below is the Hong Kong version. Source: CScout Japan
Continue reading QR Code: Help Japan Now The innovations shown in this video include: – a credit card by Dynamics Inc, which has an inbuilt computer, can store multiple accounts and be turned on and off for security – the Square app. is a ready-to-use payment system that allows SMEs to avoid costly merchant fees and contracts, simply by downloading and using [...]
Continue reading The Future of Credit Cards Debuting at New York’s National Retail Federation convention, is Adidas’ Virtual Wall. A collaboration with Intel and Start Creative, the touch screen extends from existing product shelves and allows users to see 3D views and information on shoes. Source: Creativity Online
Continue reading Adidas Virtual Wall Reinforcing JWT Intelligence’s 2011 prediction for digital downtime, is software and plug-ins, LeechBlock and Freedom, which forcibly prevent users from going online for set periods of time. In addition, Susan Maushart’s book, The Winter of Our Disconnect, records six months where she and her three teenagers spend ‘unplugged’ from mobile phones, games consoles and PCs, [...]
Continue reading De-tech Below is a few attention-grabbing slides I plucked from the predictions of New York-based marketing communications brand, JWT Intelligence.
Continue reading 100 Things to Watch in 2011 QRAPPING PAPER™ created by Justin Gignac has QR codes, and behind each code is an original holiday video that can’t be seen anywhere else. Meanwhile, Samsung is offering Tweetwrap, which allows users to create their own personalised wrapper paper with their favorite Twitter hashtags.
Continue reading Greeky Festive Wrapping Paper The Social Media team for Ogilvy Beijing created this graphic to explain the personality differences between social network users in China. Source: Thomas Crampton
Continue reading China’s Social Network Personalities Created by a team of students at the HPI School of Design Thinking at Germany’s University of Potsdam, bring.BUDDY is a program that recruits city dwellers to deliver small packages along routes they’d be taking anyway. Whether traveling via bike, public transport or on foot, interested participants indicate their travel route using a downloadable smartphone [...]
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Tesco’s Beauty Services – danni.L 00:21 on April 23, 2011 Permalink |
[...] plan to launch a concept for in-store nail and hair services, in at least 70 stores by 2012. Could JWT Intelligence have hit a nail on it’s head? Image Credit: [...]
De-tech – danni.L 00:49 on April 23, 2011 Permalink |
[...] JWT Intelligence’s 2011 prediction for digital downtime, is software and plug-ins, LeechBlock and Freedom, which forcibly prevent users from going online [...]