What I like about this, aside from being shaped like the freakin’ Falcon, is how the propeller’s protected from the inevitable bonk into walls. Instantly worth the $50 bone asking price. See video of it here.
Dimension Invaders combines camera, GPS, and accelerometer to bring space invaders into firing range. Wherever you may be. Game only works on iPhone 3GS. Learn more at Rapidito Games. Or download from iTunes.
AR BONUS:
Fang just sent me this video on the future of AR gaming. Not real, but pretty badass. Dimension Invader is the closest we’ll get for now.
Really diggin’ this. Saw it at Scouting NY who makes a great point: “I wish they had made it a little bit more clear what the incentive is to lug my old VCR all the way to Best Buy versus just tossing it in the garbage.” I wonder how many people outside the Bay Area bubble are as aware of the hazards of e-waste. Or of how much personal data can still be retrievable even after you’ve “deleted it”.
Bet kids get a big kick out of Hungry Hungry Eat Head. It’s a site-specific play experience by Hudson-Powell & Joel Gethin Lewis for the Big Screen Edinburgh, produced by Bren O’Callaghan. This the first time this technology had been used at any of the UK towns and cities in the expanding Big Screen ad network.
Malcolm aka pixelrevision whipped this up using the original Space Invaders Rom, a Z80 emulator, ARToolKit, and Papervision. Just a test. But you can imagine the possibilities. Watch the demo on Vimeo.
UPDATE:
For all the ladies out there wanting to augment their display of fashion sense, may I suggest Space Invaders Leggings / Tights.
Pong was the first videogame console I owned. Or, rather, got. Only because our neighbors were throwing it away and my Dad thought Atari was too damn expensive. Maybe that’s where my want for gadgets came from?
Great promotion for the new line of PUMA Bodywear. When the market goes down, the clothes come off. Brilliant.
Not as useful as the new Flickr App from Yahoo! or the Priceless Picks App from Mastercard, but what’s your ratio of useful to useless-but-nearly-naked apps anyway? And have you seen the market?
The biggest crime on this Microsoft ad isn’t versioning out nationalities for placement in different countries. That could be argued endlessly. No. It’s the horrible Photoshop job. The neck. The hands. Dear lord, the hands.
Friends of the Umlaut Rich and Malcolm took the initiative to instigate a good ol’ Photoshop contest.
Think parents will be able to pry the box from kids’ hands after they see it come to life like this? Pretty damn smart. Full story at JustOOH (via Metaio)
Freelance animator Najork did these insane street tests of Particle 2.0 3D software from Trapcode. Wish I knew After Affects, I’d be messing around with this right now. (Thanks, Jonathan)
