Life in the Womb, an iOS app developed by Dublin-based firms The Science Picture Company and Broadsheet favourites Redwind Software, has won a 2014 World Summit Award for innovation in learning and education.
They’ll receive the award at the wi-fi friendly World Summit Global Congress, which will be hosted in Abu Dhabi.
It’s no Realex Web Award though. in fairness.
Previously: Womb It Concerns
GPU Fluid Experiments – swish your cursor through the pixelly miasma.
Allow your head to fall slowly forwards.
And you’re under.
(Thanks Danny)
Seems @BizPost have dropped @janeruffino this week in favour of “Glastonbury for geeks”-type #WebSummit puff pieces. Disappointing.
— Philip O’Connor (@philipoconnor) November 9, 2014
Regular Sunday Business Post tech columnist Jane Ruffino (above) column was bumped in yesterday’s edition in favour of expansive and glowing coverage of the Web Summit.
It couldn’t possibly be anything to do with her previous week’s column (behind the SBP pay wall or available in an expanded form on Medium) that used the Web Summit as an example of the overly cosy relationship between tech journalism and the companies they report on.
G’wan the Official Ireland.
A nightmarish deMickeyfication by Korean artist Kim Byungkwan who sez of his ouevre:
What I would like to express through my work is very simple. I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity.
Nailed It.
A 3D aerial laser display developed by a team of Japanese researchers that can display text and images in mid air.
A 1kHz infrared pulse fires directly into a 3D scanner which focuses and reflects the laser to specific points in 3D space, ionising air molecules which release energy in the form of photons.
Much as you’d expect.
Marty Cooper once again applies his iPhone 5s and animation cells to create low cost, highly effective scenes.
Bonus cameo by Mythbusters’ Adam Savage – clearly a fan.
Previously: Aug(de)mented Reality
(H/T: Graeme Kelly)
In case you missed it, Windows 93 is an eye-melting, surreal online version of a non-existent MS operating system by Jankenpopp and Zombectro that’s well worth exploring.
Boot it up here.
(Thanks Graeme McStabby)
I’m A Creepy Crawly is a companion game for a TV series called of the same name by Dublin based Monster Entertainment.
Paul Madden of Monster Entertainment is looking for YOUR help:
Its free so hopefully a good few people will give the game a go and give us a bit of feedback – what does and doesn’t work – that we could use to improve gameplay in future games.
A veritable clarion call for Broadsheet commenting game players to weigh in.
Anyone?
I’m a Creepy Crawly is available now for free on the Google Play
Do you have an Irish app (especially an Android one)? Let us know: Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Are you fit?
Niall McDermott writes:
Myself and my brother Ronan just released a social fitness app called ForFit – the first mobile fitness app to use social forfeits to motivate users to exercise more regularly and reach their fitness goals faster.
Friends can challenge each other to a run or cycle by setting a distance or route on map and uploading a ‘Forfit’ which will be posted to Facebook on failure of the challenge. These forfeits can be a Status, Photo, Video or a $4 Dollar Forfit (65% of which will go to Cancer Research).
Download free on iTunes.
