Chinese-American popstar Leehom Wang releases ‘world’s first’ AR music video

Chinese-American popstar Leehom Wang releases ‘world’s first’ AR music video

Kuato Studios, a London-based independent games studio, has teamed up with multiple Golden Melody Award-winning Chinese-American recording artist Leehom Wang to create the ‘first ever’ AR music video. My A.I. Date with Leehom Wang gives fans the chance to experience a digital date with the singer-songwriter through face-mapping technology. Built for the iOS11 ARKit, the AR […]

Crypto20’s Autonomous Crypto Index Fund Passes $30 Million

Crypto20’s Autonomous Crypto Index Fund Passes $30 Million

CRYPTO20 is continuing to gain momentum as it hits $25 million for its Cryptocurrency Index Fund. Over 8,000 contributors are part of the fund which, unlike competitors, is a finished product with a range of investor tools. With just 48 hours left to run, the team behind CRYPTO20 is expecting to build even further and […]

LEGO unveil Messenger chatbot to ease Christmas shopping

LEGO unveil Messenger chatbot to ease Christmas shopping

This holiday, the LEGO Gift Bot, Ralph, is here to make sure every wish clicks into place! We’ve all been there… every year Christmas pops up and surprises us! Next things you know, the gift buying rush begins and we feel drowned in indecision. What gifts to buy? What will your sister’s eldest want this […]

Google updates features for mobile shopping experience

Google updates features for mobile shopping experience

Elevating its implementation of latent semantic indexing, Google has updated its shopping tool. The new features will allow users to discover, research, and compare products on Google Shopping with greater proficiency, according to the company. In the blog post announcing the update, Jennifer Liu, product management director for Google Shopping, said mobile shopping on Google was redesigned to […]

Sports photographer, Joe Hart and Apadmi join forces for “perfect selfie”

Sports photographer, Joe Hart and Apadmi join forces for “perfect selfie”

Professional photographer, Sharon Latham, has joined forces with Apadmi and England goalkeeper, Joe Hart, to create a travel selfie app. Selfie Guide guides you around the world and helps you take the perfect selfie. The Lancashire photographer said she was inspired by the “abundance” of poorly taken selfies and she wanted to create an app, which […]

Asos and HBO first to experiment with Snapchat’s branded Stories offering

Asos and HBO first to experiment with Snapchat’s branded Stories offering

Asos is among the first brand to toy with Snapchat’s new Promoted Stories feature, released November 24, which the messaging app has touted as a way for advertisers “tell deeper stories”. The format has opened up Snapchat’s most popular user feature to brands, letting them string together images and videos which disappear within 24 hours […]

Just Eat Embraces AR to Shower Facebook Users in its Food

Just Eat Embraces AR to Shower Facebook Users in its Food

Online takeaway platform Just Eat has delivered an augmented reality feature to add another compelling dimension to its food offering, via Facebook. The feature allows mobile users to beam food items into the real world via their mobile, a move that will help visualise the broad catalogue of items into the household of the consumer […]

Mobile boosts Diageo’s research in Africa

Mobile boosts Diageo’s research in Africa

Rapid and effective qualitative market research using mobile phones is helping drinks giant Diageo revamp its advertising and better understand the positioning of its brands in African markets. Traditional research methods can be expensive and hard to organise, and may often deliver superficial results, so the Join The Dots agency came up with an alternative […]

Twitter begins trialling its ‘save for later’ feature

Twitter begins trialling its ‘save for later’ feature

Twitter has begun testing a feature which enables users to privately save tweets that interest them to look at later. News of the feature – which is called ‘Bookmarks’ – first surfaced in October, when Twitter product manager Jesar Shah revealed a prototype of the feature. Back then, it was dubbed ‘save for later’. For Hack Week […]