by thesanfranciscoegotist / May 20, 2019 /
The One show may be over for another year, but it doesn’t mean you can’t win a gold pencil before next year’s show. Just in time for Friday, Zulu Alpha Kilo created the online game Pencil Pong. By visiting the site on your mobile device and using it as the pong paddle controls, you can propel yourself up the creative ranks to win One Show gold. You start the game as an intern, move up to CCO. As your caree[Read More]
by Egotist / April 8, 2019 /
Daenerys dies in Episode 1. Just kidding. No one knows for sure who's going to live or die in the final season of Game of Thrones, but one thing is for sure, everyone has their own prediction.
Introducing... The League of Thrones. An unofficial fan site and online fantasy league where you can guess who lives, dies, or gets turned into a white walker each week. Use it as a tool to track your predictions and accuracy. Plus, join a communit[Read More]
by thesanfranciscoegotist / April 1, 2019 /
Decoding the language of flowers has been a decades-long challenge. But that changes today. Thanks to great advancements in artificial intelligence, Google Assistant on phones and Google Home is now able to understand tulips, allowing translation between Tulipish and dozens of human languages.
This gets funnier as it goes, so watch it all.
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by thesanfranciscoegotist / February 14, 2019 /
Chain saw manufacturer Husqvarna wanted to celebrate and honor the love for the forest that’s shared by many of their users. So for for Valentine’s Day, they created the tongue-in-cheek "Timber" - a dating service matching tree lovers with beautiful trees around the globe.
Instead of swiping between lovesick singles, you get different trees that each have their own profiles. The California Redwood, for example, brags about its size, and The Ol’ Pine (sharing mindfulness quotes[Read More]
by thesanfranciscoegotist / February 7, 2019 /
This is pretty sweet. As a part of Nike Football’s “Dreams Are Made Here” activation at Super Bowl LIII, Nike made it rain Air Force 1s [and jerseys] from the cloud with its first-ever shoe drop using AirDrop. The activation took place on Friday, Feb 1 at the brand’s “Studio of Dreams” space in Atlanta.
So you’re in the studio checking out the experience. You get an AirDrop from “Nike Studio of Dreams.” Do you accept?[Read More]
by thesanfranciscoegotist / February 6, 2019 /
At the recent Outdoor Retailer Snow Show in Denver, Mountain Hardwear unveiled an innovative Augmented Reality experience from SF's Transparent House, which earned a "Best in Show" award, from the editors of GearJunkie Magazine.
Michael Tchong, principal of Ubercool Innovation raved "The development work of Transparent House in augmented reality heralds a new future of retail visualization - a mandatory feature in a world that caters to a surging wave of millennials and digital native[Read More]
by thesanfranciscoegotist / January 24, 2019 /
On the 30th Anniversary of Salvadori Dali’s death,Goodby Silverstein & Partners' “Dali Lives,” brings Dali back to life via artificial intelligence. Starting in April, visitors to the Dali Museum will have the opportunity to learn more about Dalí’s life and work from the person who knew him best: the artist himself.
Using an artificial intelligence-based technique, the new “Dalí Lives” experience employ[Read More]
by Egotist / October 12, 2018 /
San Francisco design firm Noise 13 branded the future of technology for Sysdig, an open source tech firm that provides monitoring and security for data containers.
Noise 13's objective was to visualize the virtual—building a brand of highly technical digital products that’s brainy, but relatable. They created a visual system, including iconography and a full library of patterns and illustrations. Noise 13 also developed a system[Read More]
