Rupert Murdoch recently launched his new publication The Daily, an iPad-only magazine that hopes to offer readers "the best of traditional journalism" with "the best of contemporary technology". The Daily features many things we've come to expect from new digital publications such as interactive 360 degree photography, inline video, orientation-independant layout and navigation designed specifically for the tablet. It also has some new features like an audio version recorded with a professional ...

Upstart bring creativity to election

Election posters aren't normally the most inspiring of communications: logo, candidates mug shot and 'VOTE No.1' in a large ugly font. But a team of artists and writers calling themselves 'Upstart' are planning to bring some creativity and ingenuity into the medium over the course of the current campaign. They plan to achieve this by reinterpreting the spaces commonly used for displaying election campaign posters in Dublin City and are calling on all artists to submit work for this ...

Interactive Mirror

This is a patent pending touch capable mirror. The interactive mirror features proximity sensors, gesturing, and both nearfield and farfield infrared. Visit blog.LitStudios.com for more information.

Meet Brickify, the new Carsonified App

Give Brickify a URL for an image and it converts the image into a LEGO brick schematic diagram and gives you an inventory of how many bricks (and what colors) you need to buy to construct it. Weldone guys @Carsonified, here's the making of the App,

Starbucks' New Star

The world's largest coffee company has unveilied a new logo and the design marks a milestone in corporate brainwashing. As we can see, gone is the company name and any mention of its principal product: coffee. Instead, the unbordered, crowned siren logo stands alone, free from the bonds of reminding anyone what it means -an undeniable icon like the Nike "swoosh" or the Target target. Here's the company's history in logo design, "What is really important here is an evolutionary ...

What a Twit!

Liverpool footballer and premiership star Ryan Babel has been become the very first player to be charged by the English FA over comments he made on social networking site Twitter after he blamed referree Howard Webb for Liverpool’s early exit from the FA cup. Although, many footballers have upset their own managers from comments made in twitter in the past, this is the first time any charges have been brought over a tweet. The Dutchman quickly took down a post which linked to a picture of ...

Handmade adverts for handmade beer

La Korrigane an artisanal brewery created a simple and expandable promotional idea. They invited 100 artists, graphic designers and illustrators to tell the story of the handmade beer by creating handmade newspaper adverts. They we invited to spent an evening at La Korrigane brewery and drew, by hand 100 adverts in a space provided on a collaborating newspaper while enjoy a few beers along the way for their trouble. The following day, the 100 copies of the newspaper were distributed in the ...

Facebook's Zuckerberg to Donate Most of His Wealth to Charity

At only 26 years of age, Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world’s youngest billionaires, but he’s not keeping it all for himself. By signing on to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s initiative called the “Giving Pledge,” Mark agreed to give most of his wealth to charity. The Giving Pledge, however, is a completely different ball game. Along with 57 other multi-millionaire and billionaire families and individuals, including Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Carl Icahn, by signing ...

The iPhone eye test

Researchers at MIT have developed a method for a cheap and simple eye exam. A small plastic device is clipped onto a smart phone screen. The user then looks into a small lens and adjusts the display to make the separate lines or dots come together and overlap. This is repeated eight times and the whole process takes less than two minutes. The test works by transforming any blurriness produced by aberrations in the eye into an array of separate lines or dots instead of a fuzzy blob, which makes ...

Going underground

A 2010 upgrade to Notting Hill Gate “tube” station revealed a series of vintage posters dating to between 1956 and 1959. The posters, which will be left intact once the modernisation work is completed, include advertising for Pepsodent Toothpaste and the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, as well as films like Around the World in 80 Days and The Horse’s Mouth, starring Alec Guinness. The vintage collection was uncovered in an abandoned lift passageway closed to the public after Notting ...

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