Cycle In Cinema – Magnificent Revolution from culturehunter on Vimeo. Springwise: Magnificent Revolution’s Cycle-in Cinema taps the kinetic energy of its participants to power the entertainment. Viewers can simply ride to a screening on their favorite cycle, hook it into the on-site generator and start pedaling. While the resulting energy powers the performance, the movie’s soundtrack is broadcast using a […]
Cycle-In Cinema
Moodagent Music
Trendwatching: Moodagent automatically analyzes and profiles a user’s music collection, and then creates playlists of their favorite tracks to suit their mood, distinguishing songs by sensuality, tenderness, joy, aggressiveness and tempo. Innovation Extravaganza [Trendwatching]
Suburban Camping
Suburban Camping is a company that sets up a variety of camping scenarios in your backyard, from canvas tents to cots and trail mix bars to outdoor movies. All campsites are set up by an experienced outfitter with one or multiple tents and sleeping bags, cots, lighting and whatever extras clients might request. By nurturing genuine connections through the camping […]
Movie-Making to The People
Iconoculture: Xtranormal text-to-movie technology is making its way by word of mouth into the hands of anyone who wants to transform their typed rants and raves into something more special. The Xtranormal tagline — “If you can type, you can make a movie” — says it all. Users choose from 16 animated character sets (like Luchadorz, bulbous Mexican wrestler-types or […]
Mini Urban Boutique Drive-In Theater
It’s the world’s first boutique drive-in movie theater created for the urban generation! The Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In concentrates on indie films, art house, cult, Gen X/Y, childhood favorites, and drive-in classics. It requires less space and is more exclusive, more personal, and more intimate. A new drive-in experience is born right in the heart of Austin.
In-Theater Bar
TrendCentral: While in-theater dining has long been appreciated in the few cities where it exists, the culinary cinema model is set to become more widespread as theaters provide menus replete with gourmet meals, table service, and cocktail-permitting 21+ viewings. Take for example, Brooklyn’s new reRun Theater, which touts a full bar and gourmet snacks prepared down the hall at parent […]
EVOtainment Entertainment System
Engadget: The so-called EVOtainment System is a Wii racing wheel from Nerf that’s been drilled out and augmented to enable a Classic Controller to join the party, backed with a strip of 3M Dual Lock. Up top a universal GPS mount clings desperately on to his HTC EVO, which connects over Bluetooth to the Wiimote. EVOtainment System brings emulation greatness […]
Can You Profit from Listening to Dow?
Swissmiss: The Dow Piano audiovisualizes the ups and downs of 2010 into musical notes. Using a five-note scale spanning three octaves, pitch is determined by the daily closing numbers of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The variance in volume mirrors the trading volume changes throughout the year. The notes are clustered in series of five, representing Mondays through Fridays. The […]
Gamer Stickers for iPhone
MobileCrunch: These cheap little stickers may look like impulse buys from a dollar store, but they might actually be pretty handy if you’re a big iOS gamer. Basically they just provide little bumps so you can tell where the virtual buttons are without checking or fumbling around. I’ve found the controls on more complicated iPhone and iPad games to be […]
My 24 Hours On Film
TrendCentral: The Life In A Day project asks participants to capture video snapshots of their lives during a 24-hour period on July 24th, then post their films on a dedicated YouTube channel. The most compelling footage will be included in a full-length, user generated documentary, with each contributor selected to be credited as a co-director – not too shabby considering […]