Nokia have been working on the push project for over a year. A crowd sourcing initiative to encourage folk to hack it's N900 phone. One of the resulting ideas was PUSH skating - basically it analyses the tricks you do on a skate board via sensors. it then turns the data into cool stats and graphics. It's the real world and Tony Hawk Pro-Skater melding into one.
They've now taken to the slopes and teamed up with Burton. I've got a feeling it still wouldn't make my pathetic 2 foot Ollies look very good.
Read more at Contagious magazine
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
NOKIA PUSH BURTON
Posted by Under The Influence at 09:49 0 comments
Labels: Data, Digital, innovation, snowboarding
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
How Big?
That big!! What an awesome site. Map the footprint of events (such as Glastonbury) or catastrophies (such as the Gulf Oil spill) over an area you can relate to so that you see how big it really is.
Here's Glastonbury on the Southbank...
Posted by Under The Influence at 13:54 0 comments
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Nerdball
Some lovely data visualisations of football over at World Cup of Nerds ...

Posted by Under The Influence at 14:50 0 comments
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)