Digital Street Art - Picturae 2.0
Picturae 2.0 is a tangible way to paint digitally.
There were many improvements since last year:
- new painting techniques (still image, movies, brushes with hairs, special ones inspired by great painters, …)
- new brushes in every techniques and a simple way to customize every tools and put your own stencils, images, movies, brushes, settings, …)
- layers, save and retrieve paintings, print, …
- a complete and dynamic control with a tablet (kind of painter’s palette)
More here.
Ad - Foursquare, presented by Best Buy
Nice ad from Best Buy with Dennis, CEO and Founder Foursquare - and his dad, and his smartphone (looks like a Samsung S3). You also learn what helped him to become a digital entrepeneur: His parents’ buying him long time ago a PC!
Nokia’s New Commercial created with their new megapixel Cameraphone
Nokia’s new ad for their megapixel phone has been created with the 41mio pixel photophone 808 Pureview. Great idea to showcase the quality of this cameraphone. More here.
New Mobile OS - Boot to Gecko by Telefonica, Mozilla and Qualcomm
The video shows a phone running the ‘open web device’ OS, which has been developed by Telefónica, in partnership with Mozilla and Qualcomm.
The Telefónica Boot To Gecko platform has been entirely encoded in HTML5, where everything is within that format, from applications to home screen - with just a Kernel, Boot to Gecko and no middleware or libraries of any sort.
The footage shows the mobile phone being used to make calls, send text messages, access Google maps, play high-quality video and even run HTML5 games, from the web.
What? A phone without Apple or Google spying? Sounds great, no? More information how to install Boot to Gecko on your Samsung S2 here.
DLD - ComScore’s CEO on “Connected Europe - Shifting Media Consumption”
Linda Abraham, CMO & EVP, comScore, Inc. presents the results of “Connected Europe: How Smartphones and Tablets are Shifting Media Consumption”. As illustrated in this report, today’s digital environment is rapidly evolving in Europe, driven by the proliferation of devices people use to consume content at home, at work and on-the-go.
Smartphones Retail
Here’s a great showcase how retail can benefit from a clever smartphone strategy. Tesco, large UK grocery store is number 2 in korea and was looking how to become number one.
Tesco first rebranded, then they created panels as exact copies of the shelves in the shops on (advertising?) -panels in public space. a qr-code below the products enable the bypassing shoppers to order the product straight away and get it delivered at home.
what a great idea.
thanks for pointing me to this, christopher!
COOL - TOYOTA’S “SMARTPHONE CAR”, THE FUN-Vii
Toyota’s president Akio Totoda unveiled what he referred to as a “smartphone on four wheels”. The concept, known as the “Fun Vii”, is designed to work like a touchscreen phone or tablet device, allowing drivers to personalise their vehicle in real-time. Using the touch-sensitive external panels, drivers could change the colour of their car, or display content like images, text, or maybe even video
What a beautiful, imaginative, creative approach. Wonderful. More information about Toyota’s FUN-Vii here
NEW - NOKIA’S WINDOWS PHONE LUMIA 800
An insider’s view on the design principles for the new Nokia Lumia 800 with Nokia designer Anton-Olof Fahlgren.
FUN - THE SMARTEST SMARTPHONE
Yeah, right, my smart phone is smarter then your smart phone. Sure. It is also smarter then me. Easy! But, hey, do i need this?
GOOGLE - MOBILE MOVEMENT - UNDERSTANDING SMARTPHONE CONSUMERS
This video presents key findings from “The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Consumers,” a study from Google. The findings come from research conducted at the end of 2010 among 5,013 US adult smartphone Internet users. Google wanted to better understand how smartphones are used in consumers’ daily lives and how smartphones have influenced the ways consumers search, shop and respond to mobile advertising.
