Found myself tasked with reverse-engineering the Duo Pop appcessory this week. In case you’re wondering, base-station to iPad communication is handled via ultrasonic sound. EOM. b.
Combine Adobe AIR with Bluetooth with BlueCove (a lightweight server capable of relaying said Bluetooth data) and you get the, (maybe) cleverly-named “Hello There”. When running, it constantly scaned for Bluetooth devices in-range & made note of their device ID.
An interactive video rich-media ad which follows a woman on her morning run. As she moves through the seasons, her wardrobe changes and a selection menu is displayed behind her. At any given moment, the user can select from the product menu, see details about that particular product, and (if they wish) go directly to that product’s page on the Nike Store site.
A little excitement today in the Flash dev community. http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html If you read the actual announcement (leaving out the trolling hyperbole), you’ll see that FP mobile is not dead per-se. However, from this day forward, Adobe won’t be branching their FP code to port it to the countless device architecture/hardware configurations… It’ll be up […]
It looks a little chintzy, but YOU try fitting a physics engine, sound AND good graphics into a non-rich media ad. Final ad size fit nicely under the 40k limit… coming in at a svelte 37k
Created a WordPress-powered site for a design group in LA. It’s that’s navigable via either desktop & iPad. http://canyondesigngroup.com
Discovered a bug today. One which, best I can gather, occurs only in Safari, with users running OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). After finally tracking down what the problem was, I was amazed that the bug wasn’t better documented…
A microsite where visitors could record video of themselves (via their computer’s onboard camera) singing along with the AskDeals jingle track and share the resulting video. The home/landing page of the microsite played an seamless & endless loop of all submitted tracks.
In the early 2000’s, Nissan was set to relaunch its fabled “Z” model. Chiat was tasked with creating the microsite to build buzz and provide enthusiasts with a few tasty media bits prior to the launch of the 350Z. Link to archived site here. + Flash development
Take a dozen Playstation gamers, fly them to the Naval base in San Diego. Film them going through Navy SEAL training Hell Week. Make a site about the experience.