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Mother and the Motion Cookies

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Sensors are becoming more and more prevelant in our daily lives. Jawbone Up, Fitbit and many other wearable devices already collect all sorts of data for us to evaluate. Now a US based startup called Sense has created Mother and the Motion Cookies, a family of smart sensors that help you track the functions you want, while allowing you to change them as often as you need.

All one has to do is select what you want to monitor, place a Motion Cookie on the appropriate object and get alerts when it’s important. Watch the demo video for more…

More infos at: www.sen.se/store/mother.

Audi TT Brochure Hack

Transforming classic print surfaces into smart touch based surfaces through special conductive ink and sensors has been around for a while now. But still I thought the below execution from Audi is worth a mention, as its a step forward for the technology since it surfaced in 2014.

The Audi TT is the first Audi model to feature a revolutionary Virtual Cockpit. So to inspire customers, digital agency Razorfish Germany used conductive ink, haptic feedback, Bluetooth and a custom smartphone app to transform the cars conventional sales brochure into a smart surface which gave viewers an augmented touch based journey through the cars Virtual Cockpit.

Playable Album Cover

Novalia is a technology company based in Cambridge, UK that is responsible for transforming classic print surfaces into smart touch based surfaces through special conductive ink and sensors e.g. The Sound of Taste from May 2014.

For their latest project they have worked with DJ Qbert to create the world’s first interactive DJ Deck on an album cover. Touching the cover activates the companion Algoriddim DJAY app that allows the user to scratch, mix and fade any songs they have already loaded in the app directly from the paper surface of the album cover.

Nokia invents a new kind of real life gaming!

Even though Nokia has joined the Google, Apple smart phone party pretty late, they are definitely trying to do whatever it takes to innovate and catch up to their competition. So with their Nokia Push project they have tried to re-imagine snowboarding! 🙂

The Nokia Push technology mixes gaming and reality with the data that you generate snowboarding on any mountain in the world! The bigger your tricks, the faster you go, the crazier the turns, the more points you score. And it’s all connected through your snowboard and synced with your social life in real time, while logging your entire mountain experience online. 😎

In 2011, Nokia Push will be collaborating with the world’s biggest snowboarding company, Burton Snowboards, to create a new type of connected snowboarding. Work has already started between Nokia and Burton, and the collaboration will be run in the spirit of the Push project — transparently, and openly in beta. Throughout this time, regular videos will be published detailing their progress so far, and counting down to the beta launch at next year’s Burton Euro Open in January.