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Bar code illustrations.

Designed bar codes can be a good, even powerful, idea for branding — someone should do it soon! I already have a massive number of ideas and executions in my head after seeing this.

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bar code, brand, commerce, designer, illustration, shopping

Amazon Japan has limited edition robot toys made from Amazon shipping boxes for sale at ¥1,000 (about S$15). An authorised customization of the original Revoltech Danboard cardboard robots, the Amazon robots, like the originals, also have a button on the left side of the head which lights up the eyes. Unlike the original toy, I am not sure if this box robot’s can be taken off to reveal any hidden identity — maybe it’d reveal a Japanese looking Jeff Bezos?

Ugh.

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amazon, cardboard, comic, japan, manga, robot, shopping, store

Tuesday, 28th October 2008

Window shopping at Amazon.

Amazon.com introduced Windowshop.com last week, their take on a virtual ‘window shopping’ experience. It lets you zoom and pan through Amazon content, like their best seller lists in music, books, video and other categories. One would guess their inspiration was the Cooliris application, but Amazon’s Windowshop seems tame in comparison. It seriously lacks the ‘wow’ factor of a slick psuedo-3D environment that Cooliris has.

With shiny, image-driven interfaces popping up everywhere, 2008 might be remembered as the year of the visual search. If visual search breaks into the big-time, Gesture based navigation might be the next big thing that may follow into the mainstream.

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3D, image, search, shopping, user interface, visual

Friday, 3rd October 2008

Nerdbots.

Nicholas and Angela, from Kansas City, piece together parts found at antique and thrift stores and build their own line of robot sculptures. Very nice work, guys!

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found, love, nerd, robot, sculpture, shopping

Thursday, 11th September 2008

Recycled newspaper as shopping bags.

Recycling materials is a great idea, but recycling newspapers into bags while keeping the newsprint intact is quite brilliant! If you are waiting for someone or something and you have this bag with you, you know you will definitely have something to read.