Friday, 19 March 2010

Notcings: A new game on flickr


What are noticings?

Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about.

For example: perplexing pavement markings, a discarded photo, and a ceramic space invader are all noticings.

Players are awarded points for things like spotting the first thing in a neighbourhood, or noticing something every day for a week.
How to play

You play Noticings by uploading your photos to Flickr, tagged with 'noticings' and geotagged with where they were taken. We've got a page with the rules and some instructions to help you out.

Each turn is a day, and at 3pm GMT every day photos from the previous day are imported from Flickr and the scores calculated.

Check it out here

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

The VollyShop - From the makers of The Dunlop Volley.



The Dunlop Volley is the shoe de jour of prisoners and old aged pensioners. If it were a car, it would be an orange Datsun 180B. If it were a drink it would be a warm can of Passiona. It's staying power as Australia's great podiatry underdog is made all the more awesome by it's epic lack of awesomeness in all directions.

This new ad campaign, by comedy wunderkind Steve Justice is the best thing on the internet since Tay Zonday's Chocolate Tubgirl. I have seen the future. And it's name is Steve Justice. Visit here for epicness on a payment plan and a free set of steak knives.

But wait, there's more...

Friday, 8 January 2010

iPhone-Controlled Parrot Drone



WiFi-ready, augmented reality-enhanced, dual video camera-wielding Parrot drone
Augmented reality based game of airborne warfare. The drone has an on-board Linux computer that manages delicate accelerometers to keep your game flying. Two video cameras—one on the nose and one on the bottom—transmit video back to your iPhone controller which is then overlaid with the targets you're meant to destroy. The future is here and it's awesome.

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