Group items matching

in title, tags, annotations or url

Kinda like purikura for mobile

I think this has been the joke of today/yesterday.

Japanese researchers have unveiled the AquaTop display, which consists of a screen projected onto the surface of water, controlled by interacting with the liquid. The creators engineered the system to use the water surface as an integral part of its control - for example, one action is carried out when users dip their fingertips to interact with a screen object, and another when they approach the item from underneath the water. On-screen items also react to the movement of the water, meaning that they can be moved or changed by simply disrupting the surface with a splash, or scooping up the water and placing it elsewhere.

This is old (2 weeks), but I like the idea of unconventional vending machines to raise brand awareness.

Have you seen the hot dog vending machines? They grill the dog and toast the bun inside the machine. Brilliant.

From Japan, a collaborative authoring community. "Cellphone novels" have been around for a while there, but this service uses Twitter and keeps the entire work open-sourced so the novel is remixable and people can pick up from anywhere in the novel to change the direction of the story and make it their own. It's pretty cool.

I'm in total j-trend mode today. This is an example of a social commerce execution in Japan. Essentially "Tweets Begging" involves people asking for deals on certain kinds of products and then a store rep will discount a product in that category, or the exact product requested.