Wednesday, 29 September 2010

NOKIA PUSH BURTON



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

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...

Thursday, 24 June 2010

Nerdball

Some lovely data visualisations of football over at World Cup of Nerds ...



 

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