Nokia Research Center has presented its HumanForm, a transparent and bendable smartphone that amazes with a jellyfish-like design and intuitive approach to its control.
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Starbucks is bringing more fun to consumer experience this holiday season by launching its first major augmented reality smartphone app featuring five Starbucks Holiday characters from the brand’s red coffee cups, Christmas Blend bags, in-store and more. This app, developed by Blast Radius, will be launched on November 15—it comes as a hilarious addition to the range of Starbucks’ applications, which includes the mobile payment and Card e-gift apps. It will allow consumers to play with the animated characters (they perform somersault and jumps when get tapped on) and win a prize for activating all of them (so far, the brand doesn’t unveil what exactly it will be).
Brands, which represent after-hours life, often provide its fans with a detailed partying and dating guide (usually, alcohol brands embark on this mission as the example of Carlsberg proves), but technological giants also have something to tell the world when it comes to interpersonal relationship. Sony Europe has teamed up with French agencies Reflex Virtual and Point-Barre to release a hilarious webseries entitled ‘A Geeks Guide to Get Girls’ starring Bruno Sanches, Loïc Bartolini and Loïc Fieffé as nerds who are trying to turn into machos in the eyes of the girls who live next door. The time has come when technology helps improve personal life.
Google continues to develop its social network. The company has unveiled brand pages for Google+ that allow businesses and brands to join it. When Google+ was just launched brands rushed to create pages but Google asked firms to stop creating Google+ profiles for a while. It took several months for the tech giant to launch business pages.