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During 2011 we discovered some unbelievably cool and useful sites and apps and shared the best we found in our fortnightly newsletters. Here we have condensed these into an even more exclusive list of the forty coolest sites, tools and apps of the year. Google+, Instagram and all the other obvious choices are here. But there’s also a few wildcards thrown in along the way just to spice things up a bit. Enjoy!
What if technology could bring an Adele or Kings of Leon concert to your bedroom? Not on TV or the internet – I mean IN your bedroom. Or Lang Lang playing Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto in your living room? Or Michael McIntyre making you and your dinner party guests laugh, right before your eyes in your very own dining room? The technology to do just that is not so very far away.
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An exhibition showcasing the nominees for the fourth annual Brit Insurance Design Awards has been unveiled to the public today at The Design Museum.
As usual the categories cover architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport and will be mulled over by an elite jury consisting of chairman Stephen Bayley, art and design curator Janice Blackburn, graphic designer Mike Farrow, novelist Will Self, pro vice-chancellor of Kingston University Penny Sparke, co-founder of digital agency ‘Poke’ Simon Waterfall and Bill Moggeridge, director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
Andrew Finan is a UK entrepreneur who has worked with games most of his life. In the nineties he ran a series of international chess events in the USA, Russia, Germany, France, the UK and Spain. They culminated in the World Chess Championship Final with Garry Kasparov at the top of the World Trade Center in New York in 1995. It was through chess he learned how games can be used to harness human intellect and ingenuity.
Creatives in Japan are currently up in arms about a new form of censorship legislation which is in the process of being approved by the authorities.
The Federal Province of Tokyo has made it illegal for creative companies to portray any female character who looks to be under 18 in any form of sexual context. This applies to all forms of manga, animation, games and film. On the surface, and in terms of child pornography and exploitation, this is a perfectly sane move to make but as is usually the case with these issues, a huge amount of grey matter surrounds the subject.
