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Make It Wearable challenge by Intel

Kristine Tanhueco — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:00:31 +0000

The MAKE IT WEARABLE challenge was started by Intel earlier this year with the aim to support the evolution of wearable devices.

Among all the submissions that they have received, 40 were picked as semi finalists in July this year. By mid August, these semi finalists were whittled down to a final 10 entrants, including concepts for wearable cameras, low cost bionics and a bionic mattress.

The finalist will be pitching their Ideas on front of a panel of judges on November 2, 2014 and the winner will be announced on November 11, 2014.

Make it Wearable is a part of The Creators Project, an initiative that encourages and fosters creative expression, pushing the boundaries of design and technology to find new and innovative opportunities for how and why we use tech in the future.

Yours in Wearable Technology,
Brio Team

Finalists:

BABYBE – Emotional Prosthetics
Team
Raphael PM Lang (Captain)
Member:
Camilo Anabalon

First V1sion – Player Perspective
Team
Jose Ildefonso (Captian)
Members:
Angeliki Terezaki
Roger Antunez
Anastasia Pistofidou

Nixie – Flyable & Wearable Camera
Team
Christoph Kohstall (Captain)
Members:
Jelena Jovanovic
Michael Niedermayr

vumbl – Sports and Activity Necklace
Team
Tom Shrive (Captain)
Members:
James Price
Mark Siddorn
Samuel Tassell

Open Bionics – Low-Cost Robotic Hand
Team
Joel Gibbard (Captain)
Member:
Sammy Payne

Wristify – Cooling or Warming Refresh
Team
Matthew Smith (Captain)
Members:
Sam Shames
Megha Jain
David Cohen-Tanugi

Snowcookie – Skiing 6th Sense
Team
Martin Kawalski (Captain)
Members:
Zbigniew Nawrat
Piotr Lukasik
Ewa Waliczek

BabyGuard – Smart Healthcare
Team
Xiaoshan Huang (Captain)
Members:
Shuai Ye
Chen Guo

ProGlove – Production Tool
Team
Paul Günther (Captain)
Members:
Jonas Girardet
Thomas Kirchner
Alexander Grots

BLOCKS – Snapable Platform
Team
Serge Vasylechko (Captain)
Members:
Hakeem Javaid
Omer Al Fakir

The World’s First 3D Printing Pen

Tanya Heading — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:20:51 +0000

Have you ever just wished you could lift your pen off the paper and see your drawing become a real three dimensional object? Well now you can!

It’s compact and easy to use, and requires no software or computers. You just plug it into a power socket and can start drawing anything within minutes.

Find out more here.

Eyes on the road

Tanya Heading — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:47:56 +0000

Do you text and drive? Well watch this video…

In a very smart PSA run in Hong Kong, Volkswagen sent text messages to people while they watched footage of a driver who gets in an accident while texting.

Now this is how you get people to stop texting while driving.

Coolest World Map

Tanya Heading — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:16:54 +0000

This map was created by comic website Doghouse Diaries and highlights what each country leads the world in… very cool.

Australia has the most deadly animals, deadly shark attacks and highest rate of melanoma in the world… not so cool.

Here are some of the highlights:

Russia: Raspberries and nuclear warheads

Cameroon: Killer lakes

Mongolia: Velociraptor bones

US: Death by lawnmower

Mexico: Getting struck by lightning

South Africa: Ostriches

Finland: Coffee-drinking

Spain: Cocaine use

Canada: Maple syrup and asteroid impacts

New Zealand: Sheep and rugby

Malaysia: Caves

Greenland: Personal space

Ireland: Highest quality of life

Democratic Republic of Congo: Pygmy chimpanzees

Cambodia: Longest alphabet

India: Movies

South Pole: Emperor penguins

Sweden: Atheism

Japan: Robots

The map was based on articles from Wikipedia so may not be the most accurate, but it sure is amusing.

See full image here also featured on news.com.au

Coke uses technology to create this powerful campaign

Belinda Vesey-Brown — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:19:50 +0000

I just found this fantastic new campaign from Coca-Cola. They have used technology is a way that brings together people in a really powerful way.

In March 2013, Coca-Cola set out to break down barriers and create a simple moment of connection between two nations — India and Pakistan. The initiative “Small World Machines” provided a live communications portal between people in India and Pakistan and showed that what unites us is stronger than what sets us apart. The key to engaging with each other through the machines was simple: people in India and Pakistan could complete a task, like touching hands, drawing peace, love, and happiness symbols — together.

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Putting the “FUN” back into theory

Belinda Vesey-Brown — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:45:57 +0000

The Fun Theory (a Volkswagen Initiative) argues, “fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better”. They held a competition for people who had fun ways of encouraging good behaviour. For example: a ‘bottle bank arcade’ to encourage recycling, ‘piano stairs’ to encourage exercise, ‘the world’s deepest bin’ to encourage people to properly dispose of litter and ‘The Speed Camera Lottery’

The theory is obviously a bit of fun and good marketing but it did have impressive results. For example, the Speed Camera Lottery ‘game’ reduced the average speed of cars on that road by 22% and the piano stairs meant that 66% more people than normal took the stairs over the escalator. This gamification of everyday things seems to ‘nudge’ people’s behaviour in profound and measurable ways. This begs the question, how far can you nudge people and in what ways?

The Fun Theory: that “fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better” seems to have some solid foundations and is becoming more widely accepted and made use of. Gamification seems set to be a common feature in our lives and one that may make our lives much more fun.

ABC2 launches new ident.

Belinda Vesey-Brown — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:21:44 +0000

ABC2 have recently launched a new ident directed by PictureDrift’s Brendan Cook and animation created by Mirage VFX.

The hummingbird was basis of the concept and you watch it transform from its natural state into a bright pink. The magic of this transformation happens after the bird eats from a pink flower. Their aim was to add to the already existing collection of idents and to represent the channel as youthful and a bit quirky. The pink and green colours used are based on the channel colours and is an interpretation on the channels tagline “Always Brighter”. It is colourful, cheery and fun to watch. ABC2 have created a great ident that captures the channels essence and beliefs.

Click to watch ident.

Yours “Always Brighter”,

Justine

Today project

Tanya Heading — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:00:42 +0000

A simple ritual of taking one photo each day and posting it online, beginning the day Jonathan Harris turned 30… breathtaking.

Reference: Today project

Yours in breathless moments,
Tanya

Addicted to Pinterest

Belinda Vesey-Brown — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:58:56 +0000

I admit it, I’m getting addicted to Pinterest. If you feel the same or, better, if you’re trying to take advantage from a marketing POV of people’s addiction to Pinterest, then you should check out this infographic that the guys at Flowtown recently put together.

Take the stairs!

Belinda Vesey-Brown — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:30:50 +0000

On any normal day, due to complete laziness I would probably take the escalator. If you presented me with the opportunity to have ‘fun’ whilst climbing a set of stairs, I’d definitely consider it.

The Fun Project – Piano Staircase was an initiative of Volkswagen to see if by making the daily chore of climbing the stairs to be ‘fun’, would increase the number of people to actually use them. See the results here.

Yours in laziness,

Justine