Visualise your next television in your own living room before buying

Here’s a great idea, Sony have developed a tool to visualise the size of the television in your living room (spoiler: there’s no such thing as too large)

‘Augmented Reality’ from Sony allows you to see the TV in your residence before leaving home. Forget tape measures, gut feelings and guess work. This TV size-guide from Sony will show you how various TVs will look in different parts of your home. Just follow four easy steps and all is revealed. You might find that you can have a larger TV than you thought as televisions are sleeker and more compact today. Try ‘Augmented Reality’ from Sony now and see what your future TV viewing could look like.

via YouTube.

At a glance pocket mobile alerts

August 24, 2011
Technology
Concept Design Phone

Fantastic idea, but can someone stick Windows Phone OS on their instead?

We hope someone over at any of the major smart phone manufacturers takes note of designer Alan Gerardo Farías’ Glance concept. The concept’s slim form factor is designed to slip into tight jean pockets while a secondary bottom display alerts you to the time, tweets or email updates with a quick glance. Brilliant!

via Apartment Therapy Unplggd.

Full moon odyssey mattress

August 23, 2011
Design
Bed Moon

Awesome, if a little pricey…

The large-scale ‘full moon odyssey’ floor-mattress (bed) by korean designer lily suh & zoono of i3lab gives you a dream-like experience as if your are sleeping on the moon. unlike other mattresses, this design breaks down the borders of dream and reality.

via designboom

Mceiptv web streaming addon for Windows Media Center gets a UI preview

In a follow up to the the preview of ‘ddfczm’ latest web streaming project for media center, previously featured here, there’s now another update in the form of a UI preview video, showing off the extensible multi service addon for Windows Media Center although an early preview and still in development, the UI looks sharp and very functional. This is one I’m really looking forward to testing.

via Australian Media Center Community

Pictionary: Quick draw wins

August 21, 2011
Design
Advertising Sketch

Lovely idea…

Anyone who’s played Pictionary knows that it’s more about speed than precision. This ad campaign by Ogilvy Malaysia humorously illustrates that very point. For their brilliant execution, the agency won a a Press Gold Lion award at the 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

via My Modern Metropolis.

The Johnnie Walker house, China

August 19, 2011
Architecture
Brand China Whisky

An eye catching brand evangelism bar…

Based on the central design theme, “Whisky Conversations”, the space was designed where multiple layered conversations are woven into the Johnnie Walker journey, complemented by the graphic designs from LOVE. Upon stepping into the Johnnie Walker House, raw ingredients such as malt and peat are lined against the wall of the entrance, acting as an important design exemplar to represent the fundaments of whisky making. Accompanied by copper lamps modelled after whisky stills, the mood of anticipation is imminent while the journey begins.

via ArchDaily.