I Don’t Want Your Fucking App:
I Don’t Want Your Fucking App: „Any modal message—full-screen or alert—that interrupts user flow to ask them to download your app suffers from #doorslam #ux antipattern.“ (via TNW)
DIY Virtual Reality on a Smartphone
Stefan Welker aus Bonn hat eine VR-Brille mit Android-Handy und 3D-gedrucktem Gehäuse entwickelt und drauf zockt er Quake.
This video demonstrates my approach to 3D Virtual Reality Gaming with a Smartphone. The open source Quake 2 engine has been used to enable Head Tracking and Side by Side 3D. The game is playable on an Android Smartphone. Right now Nexus 4, Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S3, Google Nexus 7 are supported, S3 might work. No root required. The device was 3D-printed on my Ultimaker 3D printer.
3D Virtual Reality Gaming on a Smartphone
heise: Dive: Die Virtual-Reality-Brille mit dem Smartphone
Incest Prevention – There’s an App for that…
Youtube Direktwearefamily, via New Aesthetics
In Island ist der Genpool anscheinend so knapp, dass die dort alle mindestens Cousins xten Grades sind und regelmäßig mit Verwandten in die Kiste hüpfen. Dort gibt es eine Online-Register, das Íslendingabók („The Book of Icelanders“), das Infos zu den Familien von 720.000 Isländern bereithält und die derzeit 320.000 Einwohner können sich dort über ihren Verwandtschaftsgrad informieren.
Und jetzt gibt es eine Android-App für’s Íslendingabók (hier im Play Store) mit Inzest-Präventions-Funktion. Einfach Namen des oder der Auserkorenen eingeben, Handys aneinanderreiben (hihi) und schon weiß man, wie sehr verwandt man ist. Was einen ja nicht zwingend von irgendwelchen dreckigen Sachen abhalten muss und die App funktioniert ja auch morgens danach aber ich hör’ jetzt lieber auf.
We all derive from the same family tree. An online registry, Íslendingabók (‘The Book of Icelanders’) holds information about the families of about 720,000 individuals who were born in Iceland at some point in time. Today, the population in Iceland is just about 320,000. The database can be found on islendingabok.is and everyone registered in the database has free access to it. […]
Three engineers made an app for the ‘Íslendingabók’ database. People can now easily, and on the go, look up how they are related to other Icelanders. And a precious feature, using the bump technology, allows people that meet to just bump their phones together, to instantly see if they are too related to take things any further. The engineers’ slogan for this feature was: “Bump the app before you bump in bed”.
New App Prevents Icelanders from Sleeping With their Relatives
Glitchart: There’s an App for that…
Nettes Spielzeug von Vladimir Shreyder, sowas wie Instagram für Glitchart: „Glitché is a free iPhone application to distort your photos into works of digital art using several effects based on computer errors and bugs such as glitch, slitscan, datamosh and many others.“ (via Creative Applications)
Happy 40th, Handy!
Heute vor 40 Jahren wurde die Mobiltelefon-Technik zum ersten mal erfolgreich demonstriert, Marty Cooper (The Verge hatte vor einem Jahr ein Interview) telefonierte mit einem Motorola DynaTAC 8000x (Bild links) – ein Knochen mit rund 1,5 Kilo Gewicht – von der Sixth Avenue in New York ins Festnetz und erzählte seinem Chef: „Joel, this is Marty. I’m calling you from a cellphone, a real handheld portable cellphone.“ Zehn Jahre später wurden Handys behördlich zugelassen und heute iPhoneandroidmapsgpsschnickschnackwahnsinn auf den Dingern. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Mein erstes Handy war das oben rechts, ein Nokia 7110, war damals, als ich mir das zugelegt hatte, der heisseste Scheiß unter den Mobiltelefonen. Hatte das damals noch frische WAP, sowas wie BBS für Handys und Games beschränkten sich auf Snake und Tetris und sowas wie Touchscreens waren noch Science Fiction. Is’ lange her.
Cellphone Tower Trees
Vor rund einem Jahr bloggte ich über Robert Voigts Fotografie von als Bäumen getarnten Mobilfunkmasten, hier das gleiche aus Südafrika von Dillon Marsh:
An important chapter in the history of tree-shaped cellphone towers was written in South Africa. In the mid-’90s, Ivo Branislav Lazic (who worked for a telecommunications service company called Brolaz Projects) and his colleague Aubrey Trevor Thomas were commissioned by Vodacom to solve the visual pollution problem cellphones presented. Lazic and Thomas came up with the world’s first palm tree cellphone tower. The Palm Pole Tower, made from non-toxic plastics, was installed in Cape Town in 1996.
“There were already a wide variety of designs by the time I started photographing,” says Marsh, who completed the project over six months in 2009. “The designs loosely mimic trees that are found in the local environment.”
Cellphone Towers Disguised as Trees
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
New Trees: Camo-Cell Towers
Palestine Activists send Message to Obama: We want 3G!
Klare Ansage von Aktivisten aus Palästina: Wir brauchen hier endlich mal ein vernünftiges mobiles Netz!
“This initiative was an individual effort aimed at sending two main messages to Obama about the Palestinian people’s conditions under occupation,” says Mahir Alawneh, one of the three young Palestinian men behind the initiative.
The first message, he says, highlights the fact that the Palestinian people have been deprived of the right to have 3G telecommunication technology because they compete with Israeli companies. “The idea crossed our minds thanks to a situation president Obama went through, when he insisted on using his BlackBerry smartphone” after his election, Alawneh says.
Dominos Pizza feat 初音ミク Hatsune Miku
Willkommen im Corporate Uncanny Valley, in der alte creepy Junkfood-CEOs mit japanischen Popstars per Augmented Reality-Pizzabox-App Pizza verkaufen. Welcome to the Future.
As well as allowing them to order pizzas without actually having to speak to anyone, the new Domino’s Pizza feat. Hatsune Miku app for iPhone lets customers enjoy private performances from the singing humanoid by pointing the iPhone’s camera at special app-friendly pizza boxes.
Perhaps even better than the campaign itself, though, is the cheesy video that Domino’s launched yesterday to introduce the app, which features company president Scott Oellkers doing his best to look excited about having his photo taken with the teal-haired star. Corporate enthusiasm aplenty.
Domino’s Pizza Japan Teams Up with Hatsune Miku, Releases Fantastic Cringeworthy Video
Human Mobile Mutation-Shortfilm: Valibate
Toll-trashiger Kurzfilm von Ulterior Productions über einen Vollidioten, dem das iPhone in die Hand wächst. Schöne Mischung aus der ADHS-Inszenierung von Crank, dem Bio-Horror von Cronenberg und der Medienkritik aus Black Mirror.
North Korea on Instagram
Nord Korea hat vor ein paar Tagen sein mobiles Internet für Besucher angeschaltet, seitdem tröpfeln Tweets und Instagrams aus NK ins Netz, im Bild oben erklärt der TV-Ansager den Plot von „Madagaskar“:
My first tweet using #Koryolink‘s new mobile #Internet service. Hello world from comms center in #Pyongyang.
— Jean H. Lee (@newsjean) 25. Februar 2013
North Korea’s 3G mobile network is a joint venture between state-owned Koryolink and Egypt-based Orascom. It has offered cellular calling for a while but didn’t previously allow data connections. The move to open up the network follows a visit by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, who observed last month, “It would be very easy for them to turn the internet on for this 3G network. Estimates are that are about a million and a half phones in [North Korea] with some growth planned in the near future.” For now, however, the internet is only available to the much smaller cohort of phones owned by foreigners.
Am spannendsten ist wahrscheinlich der Instagram-Feed von AP-Fotograf David Guttenfelder, hier sein Blog: „It’s a powerful way to connect directly with the outside world from one of the most isolated countries on earth. The window on to North Korea has been opened a small crack.“ Hier ein paar mehr seiner Bilder bei Associated Press: A LOOK AT DAILY LIFE INSIDE NORTH KOREA.
Wayne Dobsons House is a Cellphone-Glitch
Wayne Dobson wohnt unglücklicherweise genau an der Stelle, an der Handys (wohl vom Provider Sprint) ihre Default-Ortung platzieren. Das führt dazu, dass wenn die Ortung nicht funktioniert, Leute auf der Suche nach ihren Handys bei Wayne Dobsons Haus landen, weshalb er ständig Leute aus seinem Garten schmeißen muss. Fehler in der Matrix, indeed.
An unexplained glitch with at least one cellphone company is directing people with missing phones to [Wayne Dobsons] North Las Vegas home. And the glitch is also affecting police, who have twice been wrongly directed to his house on domestic violence calls. That has forced Dobson to post a sign on the front of his house telling people he doesn’t have their phone. The situation is one that has puzzled experts.
“That’s crazy,” said John B. Minor, a communications expert who specializes in cellphone tracking. “This sort of thing I’ve not seen.” The problem appears to be limited to some owners of Sprint phones. Company officials said they are researching the problem, which has forced Dobson to sleep near his front door on weekends so he can answer the door quickly at all hours.
We Never Look Up: Photography of the Mobile-People
We Never Look up, ein Tumblr voller Leute, die in ihre Handys starren: „The world has gone mobile. We live in an information society and are connected to information anywhere we go, and whatever we do, 24/7. And that has changed how we as people behave. We never look up anymore.“ (via DeJoost)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Fotos von Menschen mit Gadgets und Screens
People who play
Gamer beim Gamen gefilmt
Global Augmented Reality Version of Pong!
Ich hab’s nicht ausgetestet, aber das klingt toll: Sander Veerhof hat eine App programmiert, die einen Pong in einer Augmented Reality-Version auf dem Erdball spielen lässt.
A global 3D multi-user version of PONG using augmented reality to play against your friends worldwide. Look around for targets, select one and click SHOOT to play ball. Tap an incoming ball and click to BOUNCE it back.
PONG anno 2012 (via Geekosystem)
Googles Ingress: A global mobile Alternative Reality Game
Google hat heute Ingress gelauncht, ein weltweites Alternative Reality Game auf Android-Handys. Das sieht alles schick aus und super, ich wollte allerdings auch anmerken, dass man sowas in klein mit ein bisschen Coding auch selbst per WordPress-Plugin veranstalten kann, und zwar mit dem Projekt Pingeborg, über das ich neulich gebloggt hatte. Nur nicht vom beknackten Namen abschrecken lassen, die Technik dahinter kann alles mögliche, wenn man die ein bisschen aufbohrt, unter anderem eben auch ARGs.
Jedenfalls: Google hat heute Ingress gelauncht, kompliziert formuliert ist das langfristig wahrscheinlich eine gamifizierte Content-Conversion für Google Glasses, Android und die kommenden Robo-Cars.
“The concept is something like World of Warcraft, where everyone in the world is playing the same game,” Hanke said. Players are on one of two teams: “The Enlightened,” who embrace the power, or “The Resistance,” who fight the power. Anyone can play from anywhere in the world, though in more densely played areas there will be more local competition for resources.
Outdoor physical activity is a big component of this, though driving between locations isn’t banned. “You’re like a rat in a maze on the phone,” Hanke said. Then, back at your computer, you can review the larger area and gameplay.
If self-driving cars or computer glasses are a head-scratching fit for Google, Ingress is perhaps even more so, because it’s a content project that’s expressly askew from reality. The company has hired game writers and artists, and hopes to stay a month or two ahead of the audience, Hanke said.
Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game
