Downtown Toronto is fast, it’s unpredictable and if you aren’t nimble a construction crane could wipe out your entire business! Read More…
Author Archives: Fabio Abreu
Urban Chic 31.03.2010
Watch It: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 27.03.2010
First things first, let’s get rid of some movie-goers. The movie is foreign. It’s Swedish, so subtitles. Its disturbing, graphic violence and mature subject matter are not for the fainthearted. Now that everyone’s gone, the adaptation from global bestseller, the late Stieg Larsson, is a thrilling take on the murder-mystery genre, which captivates from first [...] Read More…
Emerging: Foursquare 27.03.2010
The Science Foursquare is social networking on the go. The location-based mobile app taps into your phone’s GPS and displays the whereabouts of friends on your network. You tell it where you are by “checking in”, Foursquare shares this with your friends, and rewards you with badges. By “checking in” it also suggests neighbouring locales [...] Read More…
OK Go- Viral Video Masters (HD) 05.03.2010
OK Go’s Promo for their new single This Too Shall Pass. Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. After their Grammy award-winning treadmill video “Here It Goes Again”, the group follows up with an RGM-inspired video that already has 3M+ views in less than 5 days! Read More…
Emerging: Augmented Reality 02.03.2010
The Science Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows you to superimpose, through a camera, graphics and audio over a real-world setting in real-time. It augments what you’re actually seeing in front of you, like looking into a mirror and seeing something that’s not actually there. Recently, Wallpaper* Magazine included AR on their Cover. [...] Read More…
Oh, The Places You’ll Go 19.02.2010
There are seldom places on this globe where one man’s inherently good-natured vision gets transformed into reality. Along my travels in Copenhagen, I stumbled upon one of its gem neighbourhoods, whose humble, utopian origins are still echoed today: the Free Town of Christiana. The neighbourhood was once a deserted military barracks in the center of the city until [...] Read More…
Emerging: Digital E-Ink 10.02.2010
The Science Structurally composed of millions of tiny microcapsule or cavities — an ink or oily substance fills them, and pigmented chips or balls with a negative charge float inside the microcapsule. You get a super-thin display where the E-ink technology creates something similar to an electric billboard (with 50 to 100 times less energy [...] Read More…