With so many app’s available the few really great ones can get lost in the shuffle. To help showcase some of the best produced and designed iPhone app’s comes the app.itize.us website. As the site says “app.itize.us is a painstakingly curated presentation of the best of the best designed iPhone apps that are available via the app store (for free or paid). it is intentionally a very small hand picked selection compared to what is currently available via the app store (now upwards of 140k) due to the fact that its very difficult to find many of these apps since they are not part of any of the top rated/grossing lists.”
While Sony won’t be ready to release a new version of their Playstation gaming console anytime for the next several years, industrial designer/illustrator Tai Chiem decided to mock up a concept for what the next evolution of the PS series could look like. His conceptual model features an fully intergrated glass touchscreen panel for all controls and what appears to come complete with a monitor built into the console as well.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the classic Hasbro board game Candyland, San Francisco’s Lombard Street has been turned into a life-sized replica of the game. Children from the UCSF Children’s Hospital and the Friends of the Children non-profit participated in a game on the modified street where they journeyed through the Peppermint Forest and over the Gum Drop Mountains, concluding with the eating of a sugar overdosing, courtesy of one outrageous cake.
Inlingua, an international language training organization (think ESL) released this advertisement to promote their services. While I can’t vouch for how effective it is for increasing their business, I can tell you that any of you type nerd/gamers out there will love watching helvetica blow you to pieces in a Call of Duty style.