A lovely animation short movie, with the name “Drawing Inspiration“. Watch this, to add a little flavor to your everyday life! (via)
Naked Password screenshot
Naked Password is a neat approach to encourage users to select more secure passwords on the web. It’s a jQuery-plugin, that undresses a pixel-women in direct relationship to your password-strength. Feel free to fork this stuff! Try the live-demo at the Naked Password demo-site.
Spent is a serious game made for the Urban Ministry of Durham, that want to teach about homeless people and the stuff the Ministry does. In the game you ran out of money and have to get through it, without getting homeless or loosing all your cash. This flash-game takes the approach of an interactive text-adventure, where you are bound to make choices all the time. Although the clean style and the interesting idea, the game itself unfortunately feels a little bit too serious in my eyes. All choices you make in the game, can be reflected too easily through the eyes of “not spending to much money“. On the other hand, this game tells a story about living at the border, so why not have a try? Somehow a counterpart could be Queue, that is about standing in an social welfare waiting line. Cool ideas for games I guess, but please put a little more fun into it! (via)
From left to right: Büro Destruct Designer, Calcopac, Gravity Lander
The site “Theoriehaus” freshly released an interview with Lopetz from Büro Destruct. They talk about the three iPhone apps, Büro Destruct released within the last 12 months: Büro Destruct Designer, Calcopac, Gravity Lander. The interview is about the idea, history and design decisions of the apps. They also talk about game culture and the Apple app store. Go and read it here.
Light-installation artists “Mr. Beam” from the Netherlands made a nice installation for a living-room with two video-beamer. The room can switch its complete texture with one click. Very interesting to see, how the complete mood of the room changes at given time. (via)
There seems a nice product named “NoteSlate” coming up, made by a Czech startup. NoteSlate is a 1-bit drawing pad with a “retina-like” display. The feature-set is really reduces, strongly derived by simple pen and paper. The design is clean and simple and editions in various colors should be available. The price should be about 99 dollar and available from June 2011. The device also include mini USB, SD card reader, WiFi with sketch-sharing option and a 3.5mm jack for audio content, played by an internal mp3-player. (via)
