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Testing out the new Tictrac app with lets you collect, track and visualize your own private data. Pretty nice interface and experience, but it’s still in closed beta, and does not yet sync with enough services to make it relevant for me. Read more in this article in Wired
Today being the World Water Day seems to be a good time to revisit The Virtual Water Project by Creative Consultant Raureif who is actually giving a talk here in Copenhagen at CIID on the 17th of april.
Another app got me excited; the Mattebox camera app designed and developed by Ben Syverson. If you care about well designed interfaces and photography I recommend to go check it out.
Now I need an upgrade from my 3GS iphone cam. When is the next one coming out?
Giving this new list app a spin. Not so much because I really need another todo app in my life, but the simplified and gesture based interface seems pretty sweet. Designed and developed by Impending, Milen and Realmac Software (second time I am buying and promoting an application by them). Looking forward to more of this…
Update Feb. 20: Article by Aynne Valencia and Alfred Lui from Fjord highlighting the interaction trends that the Clear app is representing.
At etrans we recently launched an open competition looking for app ideas that can make the electric car smarter, safer and more fun.
One of the strategic areas I have had my focus on since I started as innovation consultant at etrans was ‘Smart Data’, investigating how the intelligent e-cars can become more attractive than the gasoline driven ones by looking into the possibilities when combining the e-car with traffic data, navigation, wifi, smart phones etc.
The competition appsogelbiler.dk (apps & ecars) is rewarding the 3 best ideas in 3 categories with 25.000 DKK - and before you click through let me just say it’s all in Danish (etrans is working to get the Danes to love the e-cas).
I am hoping we get a bunch of creative and innovative concepts before the 1st of december deadline that our very competent jury can evaluate. The jury consists of:
Henrik Werdelin, Managing Partner at Prehype with a background from MTV Intl. Joost and Hotpotato and specialized in innovation and digital startups and focusing on user experience
Morten Just, Interaction Designer at Google. Previously worked with Adobe, Vodaphone and ZYB and develops new quirky apps in his sparse free time.
Christiane Vejlø, Digital trend expert and editor at Electronista.dk after having worked for 10 years with innovation in broadcasting and telephone industry.
Bo Borbye Pedersen, myself, innovation consultant and sr. designer at etrans with a background in user centered design and innovation, etc…
Please help spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested - and can understand Danish!
Currently using the Omm Writer created by Herraiz Soto and co, making me concentrate on getting some writing done for an upcoming etrans exhibition.
This video shows the BMW evolve app, which helps you figure out what impact an EV would have on your daily life. At etrans, one of our focus areas in our work in our effort to create an attractive infrastructure around the electric car is what I at one point called ‘Smart Data’. Basically that just means apps, an obvious area where the EVs has a born advantage as they are all intelligent and most of them online.
Currently we have a competition in the works which this as the main aim, but we are also looking at apps to race awareness about the EVs. We have made an edutainment app for DONG Energy (for children) and also had a concept around creating a tamagothci like app, which would act as if you had a electric car and compare it to your current driving habits. But BMW beats us with the EVolve Mobile App, which is more or less the exact same concept. And I most say that BMW are really doing some cool stuff when it comes to the future of mobility (see earlier post).
I love project managament software that actually works (and looks good). Haven’t tested this one thoroughly yet but as Tina Roth Eisenberg aka. Swiss Miss put it: This app almost makes me want to take on clients again
Beautiful little piece of software delivering a nice experience of uploading and sharing files! Courier for Mac. Very well done. I think this will be my first buy in the App Store (on my iMac).
Square
Great idea by Jim McKelvey and twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. I really hope this will become a success. Imagine this at your garage sale or other pop-up events! Nice and simple and well executed with some handy features such as photo validation and receipts with maps.
