We think that Glass could be an interesting new platform for gaming. A few of us recently hacked together five simple games that experiment with the unique features of Glass and demonstrate some of the possibilities for gaming. Not quite sure how many other types of games one could create with this … Google Glass …
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Last.fm and Spotify partnering up
We’ve teamed up with Spotify to bring their entire catalogue, on demand, to the world’s leading music recommendation service. Whether it be your own profile page, artist pages or album pages – if Spotify has it, you can play it and control it on Last.fm via the Spotify playbar at the bottom of the screen. …
Regular Expression Crossword Puzzle
Batarang
A batarang is a roughly bat-shaped throwing weapon used by the Gotham City vigilante Batman as a non-lethal ranged attack alternative to firearms, which he rejects outright due to the circumstances of his parents’ murder. The name is a portmanteau of bat and boomerang, and are sometimes referred to as batarangs. Not only Gotham City …
How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up. A sad story …
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Inside a performance of the London Symphony Orchestra
View performances from a new perspective, watch up to four cameras at one time, and use the orchestra visualisation to learn more about the instruments & musicians involved. Neat! Would love to see an HTML5 based version of this, yet might not be possible at all to get the videos properly sync’d up. Hover at …
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SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
In flight
To mark 100 years of passenger air travel, our stunning interactive uses live data to show every one of the thousands of commercial planes currently in the air, charts the history of aviation since 1914, and asks what comes next for the industry Neat! Pleasant narrative too. In flight: see the planes in the sky …
Video embeds for the Social
About half a year ago I’ve changed how I embed videos here on bram.us. No, I’m not embedding responsively but I’m embedding Vimeo and YouTube clips along with its poster frame (= the image you see before the video starts playing). Doing this will force Facebook and Google+ to show that image – and not …