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Chrome Experiments Meets Arcade Fire

TechDept — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:16:14 +0000

The Wilderness Downtown

Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.

By Chrome Experiments for Arcade Fire 2010

What next in Digital?

TechDept — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:17:26 +0000

What do experts from 11 companies think will be the next big thing(s) in digital? Read and listen to what they have to say in essays and short films (via the link below).

So, sexy digital is going all serious and proper. Once flirty and out there for anyone’s taking, digital is going around telling everyone that, nowadays, it’s more like data, don’t you know.
Digital: hot, spunky, appealing to young, forward-thinking, creative types. Data: crunchingly boring, appealing to geeks (but not sexy geeks). So what’s going on? Some of the answers can be found in the write-up (page 4) of the roundtable discussion hosted for the writers of the essays that follow, and in the collection of essays themselves.

By Suzanne Bidlake, www.campaignlive.co.uk, June 28th 2010

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

Pong

TechDept — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:13:28 +0000

Cool game!

Have a go: http://stewdio.org/pong/

By Stewdio

E3 Flash Mob — Toy Story 3 Video Game

TechDept — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:36:38 +0000

YouTube, July 16 2010

The PEN Story

TechDept — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:53:07 +0000

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. Shot with 60.000 pictures, developed in 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production.

By PENStory, July 2 2009

The Magical Classroom

TechDept — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:43:09 +0000

A short film by SMART Technologies showcasing the magic of their touch screen interactive whiteboards.

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

9 elements

TechDept — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:10:05 +0000

Amazing graphics + twitter = cool moment

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8-Bit NYC

TechDept — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:00:20 +0000

What would a real-world place like New York City look like as an 8-bit video game map?

I started wondering, so I created 8 – Bit NYC mixing the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games with the kind of geographical data that drives today’s web maps and GPS navigation. It’s interactive (like Google Maps), letting you zoom from a view of the whole city, down to an individual street — any address, anywhere in the city. Here are a few highlights: Central Park, Greenwich Village, World Trade Center.

By Brett Camper