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Now this seems quite tasty. Stickybits is an app that allows people to attach digital content to real world objects using barcodes. Unlike QR codes however, Using Stickybits means that other users to scan that same barcode, see what you and everyone else has attached to it, and in turn add their own content. Contagious are currently preparing there next printed installment to include a Stickybit on its cover, which will give their readers the opportunity to use it as a potential media channel.
Nice conceptual project from designer Michael Robinson in the form of Nike+ 26 shoes. Robinson has identified that while we can now collect all sorts of data while running, thanks to pedometers and heart-rate monitors, we don't usually make that data public. His Nike + 26 prototype use marathon spikes with 26 lights in them. For every mile you run, a light turns on, creating an info-graphic of the wearer's progress in a marathon. Nike have approached a slew of designers and asked them to re-purpose a pair of Nikes for an exhibition to be shown later in the year.
Nigel Ficke is a real human being. And he's awesome. In fact, he's so awesome that when he showed up for the 2010 Electric Daisy Carnival auditions the Insomniac team decided to make him the feature character in this episode for the 6 part EDC 'Audition' mini-series. And yes, the video lives up to the prodigious heights that the above image sets it.
Dutch artists Theo Jansen has been preoccupied with creating new forms of life for the past two decades. He builds kinetic sculptures that are able to walk on the wind, with the ultimate aim of releasing these 'creatures' in herds onto beaches where they can live their own lives. Here is Animaris Rhinoceros.
Very interesting short by Simon Cottee exploring the merits and impact of pixel art, animation and chiptune music - music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in real time by a computer sound chip. It includes interviews with game designers and animators Jason Rohrer, Joe Brumm and Alex Yabsley and music from 8BitCollective.
A new app for the Museum of London very nicely brings its extensive art and photographic collections to the streets. StreetMuseum, developed by Brothers & Sisters, uses geotagging with Google Maps, to guide users to the locations of various images amongst their vast collection.
As part of Adidas' 'shirt with a story' world cup campaign, TBWA\Hakuhodo has created a giant 13 canvas manga comic strip in tribute to Japan's footballing heroes. With Japanese youngsters invited to finish inking in the colours of the mural, the strip has finally made its way online. Each panel will ultimately appear at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on 25th May, where it will be assembled as an inspirational send-off for the team as they board the plane to South Africa.
Finally, an answer to the question "Where would I end up if I was to dig straight down?". Using Google maps the mashup simply works out your diametrical opposite location on the globe. Above is the exact end point from my house in east London. Give it a go here.
The Status of Africa is a facebook application that lends your status to one of seven Africans for 5 days, helping them reveal what daily life's really like there. It's from BBH London for the charity AMREF, an on-the-ground NGO with 97% African staff, who have been working there for the past 50 years to try and improve the health and lives of some of the world's poorest people. Hmm, quite interesting.
As I'm sure sure everyone with internet access will have no doubt already realized, Google has taken it's weekend doodle to a whole new level. In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, the infamous search engine is currently housing a playable, 256-level game. So stop what you're doing and go eat some ghosts.
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