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Augmented Reality comes to Greeting Cards

Miscellaneous, News / By Khalid Hosein / March 18, 2010

Hallmark have a new greeting card product that incorporates augmented reality. You just need a computer with a webcam, visit www.hallmark.com/extra and hold the (dead tree) card you received in front of the webcam to see the whole show.

Take a look at this video to see how cool it is. Next step, holocards.

The Switchital Clock’s Digits Morph With Each Time Change

Miscellaneous / By Khalid Hosein / January 1, 2010

This is just a design right now, but it’s cool-looking for sure. Called the Switchital Clock, the numbers break apart and morph to the next set of numbers each minute. Designer Matthias Pugin has a number of other cool designs on his website.

Looking for a real alarm clock? We got lots of those!

Geeky 80s Wedding Invitation

Gaming & Toys, Miscellaneous / By Khalid Hosein / November 9, 2009

This is simply really creative and sooo appropriate if you’re a child of the 80s and a computer/gaming geek.

Illustrator Carla Berrocal created this wedding invitation that is pays homage to the blocky graphics of the Atari era of video games. Nicely done Carla.

via Switched and BuzzFeed