http://www.thebubbleproject.com/
The Bubble project was started by Ji Lee, Google Creative Labs' Creative Director in New York and has now been expanded to 11 cities around the world by other people.
It's simple and brilliant.
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One of the best things I've seen all year.
Bearing in mind that Flickr have begun to map out whole swathes of the world:
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
This is awesome:
http://johanneskopf.de/publications/deep_photo/
Kudos to Plug-In Media for pushing the boundaries. This is a great example of Flash, 3D and 2D animation working together.
via youtube.com
I came across this on hexachordal's (Tom Milson) YouTube channel. He's 19yrs old and as created an 8-bit tune using his Game Boy.
When you get conversations on DailyBooth like this one, I think he might be on to something.
There's some great insight in this article and some genius interactions.
Well worth a read and a watch. With handsets being crammed full of sensors (the new iPhone will have a compass) it opens up tons of opportunities.
via economist.com
Great article which references both V2V and V2I communication using DSRC, wi-fi for cars.
Definitely worth a read. I can think of dozens of uses for this, but adoption needs to begin in commercial vehicles first before the general public will overcome their natural mistrust of how their driving behaviour is being utilised and stored.
My hunch is that it'll be new, emerging markets that'll experience this first...
