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An intro to FX Studio

TechDept — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:04:14 +0000

An introduction to FX Studio, an upcoming mobile and web-based application that allows people everywhere to add a range of Hollywood-quality special effects to their video clips.
FX Studio is being produced by Framestore & Nokia.

by Framestore for Vimeo, July 26 2010

1ktris: Tetris in 1024 bytes of JavaScript

TechDept — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:56:09 +0000

Sorry to present you with another form of procrastination at work. Tetris in 1024 bytes of JavaScript

http://i.sstephenson.us/1ktris/1ktris.html

by Sam Stephenson for JS1K

50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers

TechDept — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:59:20 +0000

50 useful tools and time-savers for web designers and developers.

Among other things, you will find recently released tools, useful reference sheets, articles and further resources. Such posts are prepared over months, each containing resources found, reviewed or bookmarked by the Smashing Editorial Team.

Visit the site

By Vitaly Friedman for www.smashingmagazine.com 26 July 2010

Movie Mode app – Despicable Me

TechDept — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:10:32 +0000

Turn on Best Buy Movie Mode at the beginning of the movie to translate every hilarious word the Minions are saying during the 3D end credits of Despicable Me, and unlock even more exclusive content after the show. It’s the exciting new mobile app that syncs with the movie screen to give you a one-of-a-kind experience. Check out the TV spot.

By bestbuymoviemode

Open Innovators

TechDept — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:21:41 +0000

Open innovation is a new paradigm in which company boundaries are crossed, and collaboration and external inputs are key. In this approach, companies use both internal and external knowledge to fuel innovation, and both internal and external paths to commercialise new products and business models. Within this context, Open Innovators wants to bring new insights and best practices on open innovation, crowdsourcing, and co-creation - for business leaders as well as entrepreneurs.

Examples:

Innocentive - open innovation problem solving
TekScout - crowd sourcing R&D solutions
IdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem solving
Yet2.com – IP market place
PRESANS (beta) - connect and solve R&D problems
Hypios - online problem solving
Innoget - research intermediary platform
One Billion Minds - online (social) challenges
NineSigma - technology problem solving

Open Innovators, 2010.

Launchlist – The one stop website check-list

TechDept — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:57:23 +0000

Launchlist is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large.

The product was born out of frustration. For too long we had been using archaic methods to conduct pre-launch testing and the web was an obvious choice to do it better.

The process is simple – Enter your name and email and the same for a recipient (not required – but it’s best not to test your own work), your project details and website URL, and then proceed through our list of provided fields

If a question is irrelevant, you can tick N/A and it will be disregarded. You can even add your own custom fields at the bottom of the checklist if required.

Once submitted, you and your recipient/s will receive a report of your checklist with a summary for your records.

Try it out

OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT SHOULD I DO?

TechDept — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:18:35 +0000

A lot of things have happened during the past few years. New media have become far more than just toys for nerds; they now have an impact on everybody’s life to a greater extent than ever before – from the cell phone in your pocket and industries fighting to survive down to your old high-school friend you block on Facebook to prevent him from bothering you every time you’re online.

We’re currently experiencing a time of change – a change during which a whole generation is evolving; this generation is growing up with an entirely new media behavior. It can’t imagine a world without new media.

Now, also, the marketing industry must adapt, since you can hardly reach this generation using means and methods from the past.

This book helps traditional advertising and marketing people master the step into the digital era, providing tools to create campaigns that reach the people of today.

By Innovative Thunder

“And Then There Was Salsa”

TechDept — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:10:24 +0000

An amazing video for Frito Lay Dips:

http://vimeo.com/9194146

By Frito Lay Dips, (on Vimeo), Feb 3 2010

Augmented reality: 10 real world examples from the superbrands

TechDept — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:01:42 +0000

Exciting things are happening in the whizz-bang new world of augmented reality, which will surely hit the mainstream before too long.
Many of the world’s top brands have experimented with AR recently, and while some of the first wave of apps are more gimmicky than useful, others certainly shine a light on what we can expect from this space in the months and years to come.
Read more

By Chris Lake, May 20, 2010

Game Seeds card game

TechDept — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:11:35 +0000

“Game Seeds is a card game designed to spice up your brainstorm sessions on Character and Game Design. Game Seeds are wild free-spirited tiny creatures that you can play with, combine, hack and get inspired by to bring new characters and game ideas to life. The object of Game Seeds: design a Hero, design a Sidekick and design a Game by playing with a deck of cards.