Need motivation? This app will pay you to exercise

Need motivation? This app will pay you to exercise

If ever you’ve needed an incentive to exercise, a new app could give you a much-needed boost to get active. The British app Sweatcoin tracks your activity and pays you accordingly in its digital currency, which can be used to purchase physical trainers and exercise classes. For every 1,000 steps walked, users earn one sweatcoin (SWC). […]

Malibu Brings the IoT to FMCG as it Turns Bottles into Digital Touchpoints

Malibu Brings the IoT to FMCG as it Turns Bottles into Digital Touchpoints

Malibu is looking to capitalise on consumers’ “contactless payment behaviour” by turning 40,000 of its bottles into media platforms, offering consumers access to exclusive content simply by tapping their smartphone on the bottle. Malibu is using the same technology used for contactless payments to create 40,000 ‘connected’ bottles, allowing users with Android phones and the […]

Porsche Adds Interaction To Print Campaign

Porsche Adds Interaction To Print Campaign

Porsche continues to incorporate technology into its print ads for the 718 Boxster. A new execution debuts in the September issue of Outside magazine, which hits shelves this week. It is the third in the series of these print ads that started back in March 2015 with a Porsche hologram ad in Fast Company.  This time, the […]

‘Breathalyzer’ Business Card You Lick To Prevent Drunk Driving by Uber

‘Breathalyzer’ Business Card You Lick To Prevent Drunk Driving by Uber

This ingenious in-bar campaign from Russia turns regular ol’ business cards into blood alcohol tests to see if you’re too drunk to drive. Alibi Bar, in the city of Yekaterinburg, partnered with Uber to try to prevent people from drunk driving. Business cards are affixed with saliva alcohol test strips. Customers will receive this card […]

Hollywood VFX Veteran Makes Magic With Augmented Reality

Hollywood VFX Veteran Makes Magic With Augmented Reality

Originally created as an Augmented Reality test project, this magical Tarot Card experience was truly enchanted. Now it’s available for iOS and Android users on Google Play and the App Store for use both as a view-through mobile app and in Google Cardboard or Daydream headsets. Big Blue Ceiling, the Extended Reality think tank created […]

The Next Must-Have Smartphone Feature

The Next Must-Have Smartphone Feature

Google’s new location-sensing system will make augmented reality far more useful. Smartphones can tell you when to depart for the airport to make your flight, provide voice-guided directions on the way there, and route around traffic jams. But if you wanted to get audio directions to a specific counter at the airport, you’d be out […]

Google launches FaceTime competitor, video-calling app Duo

Google launches FaceTime competitor, video-calling app Duo

During its developer conference this year, Google announced two new apps designed to take on incumbents in video calling and chat: Duo and Allo. Perhaps the fastest and most accurate way to describe Duo is as a cross-platform FaceTime competitor. Duo’s pitch is that it’s simple and will work on both iOS and Android, even […]

Case Study: Voice Command Recipe App for Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Case Study: Voice Command Recipe App for Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Philadelphia is the leading brand in the cream cheese category in Brazil. Its campaign promotes cooking therapy: the moment when your friends gather around the stove and make special memories while cooking. To establish that purpose, the Mondelez brand needed a recipe app, teaching fans how to prepare recipes with the cream cheese. Since there […]