If you haven’t played Monument Valley you’re missing out on a beautiful and expertly crafted game. Created by a lone developer, the game pulled in over 5.8 million in sales and was the Apple game of the year. Well today’s your lucky day! Monument Valley which is normally $4, is now a free download for iOS and Android. Not sure how long it will last but well worth the download.
Plink is a mutiplayer music experience that enables you to play music with others visiting the site or using the new mobile app version. Created by the folks at DinahMoe, Plink is one of a number of adaptive music projects from the shop. DinahMoe is known for their innovative sound work for brands. Such as a recent collaboration with Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, google and the Tate entitled the Exquisite Forest.
I stumbled upon this talk by SYPartners founder Keith Yamashita on 99% U. SYPartners is doing some innovative work in the collaborative creative space. Below Yamashita pulls back the curtain on the methods, process and tools that his team is using to help individuals and companies unlock their full creative potential.
Feeling a bit of creative block or just stuck? Checkout SYPartners’ free ipad app Unstuck.
About the app
Make a decision
Set goals
See all the possibilities
Overcome obstacles
Find the help you need
Rediscover purpose
Make a plan
Crystallize your ideas
Get motivated
Deal with changeUnstuck is a spin-off from SYPartners, a company that helps leaders and their teams during times of transformation. We’ve worked with great people at Starbucks, IBM, Facebook, Target, Ann Inc., GE, and lots of other iconic companies to help them transform their business, brand, and culture and be the best they can be.
Hat tip 99% U
Lapka is a personal environment monitor that connects to a mobile phone enabling the user to collect, measure and analyze Radiation, Organic, EMF and Humidty. The fact sheet defines it as a highly sensitive monitor that responds to an invisible world of particles, ions, molecules and waves, so it can analyze your surroundings and smartly combine the results into guideline values for your comfort.
Berg have developed a “Little Printer” that bridges the physical and digital world. Printer management is handled through a mobile app enabling users to curate todo lists, blog feeds, 4square checkins, tweets and status updates. A wireless bridge called Berg Cloud helps the device to effortlessly print you a daily mini-newspaper. Added bouns the printer is inkless – it prints in black on white thermochromic paper.
From the little printer site:
Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful miniature newspaper.
Slavery Footprint is a site and mobile app that looks at purchases you make to determine amount of forced labor that’s gone into everything you own.
It’s not easy to be a socially responsible consumer. Even if you buy mostly local products and diligently keep track of corporate environmental footprints, you may still be leaving a trail of slaves in your wake. After all, who do you think is digging up the minerals in your smartphone or picking the cotton for your T-shirts? Slavery Footprint, a new website and mobile app that launched today (the 149th anniversary of the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation) can tell you approximately how many slaves have pitched in to make the goods you enjoy on a daily basis.
Dot is a panoramic video camera made by Kogeto that can snap onto your iphone (android version is being developed). Retailing for $79 it enables the user to shoot a 360 video. See below and mouse around the video.
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Nice clean app with tons of fonts. Checkout Font Book an app for the ipad. Very cool.
