AIRPONG!!!
Can someone make this for me? I promise to play it all the time!
So it’s simple, see, the game uses the camera to see whats it in front of it as a playable surface area. Once it has skinned the landscape in front of it you, it’s time to set the pong into play. The screen on the other side shows what the camera sees and inserts a 3D puck/ball. The phone then becomes a paddle to hit the puck back at objects. Using the phones accelerometer, compass, etc it knows how the phone hit the 3D ball and its next trajectory…. blah, blah, blah… and add a dash of gravity.
Object is to not let the puck hit the ground and bounce it off everything around you (e.g. walls, park benches, persons head in front of you on the bus) = fun times.
*Update* -Screw using your phone as a paddle, use what ever you want if the space where the virtual puck gets covered == hit.
Love to see Philip Rosedale’s tech share coffee concept (jump to 36th minute) pop up all over the US.
Combining meetups like Makery, Night Owls, & StdyHll with foursquare check-ins could be a great start; Check-in with your specialty/profession in shouts - maybe a great way to see who’s there/does what and be able to engage them in the things you are working on and share insight.
Is there a foursquare widget/app that would allow people to see who else is in a location for displaying on a large screen at the venue? I’ve seen them with twitter. I could see this app being used all over the place: College Tutor Labs, Speed Dating (lol)…
Since selling the house and the inevitable move back to an apartment, I find the shrinking of space a somewhat exciting challenge, but I wanna hide everything behind art. I have all these ideas running around about, modular paintings that can install over hide-a-way utilities, like the ironing area in this drawing… makes me wanna call IKEA and work on making some of these things. Now, unfortunately moving to an apartment means no more workspace to start cutting wood for a prototype. #irony
Crap app idea of the day: iPad Mugshot Board
So yeah, editable board with date, county (maybe by GPS), etc. Might be fun at parties. Anyway, I get a free copy if you make it.
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Square Groups - An idea about how this could be done:
In my last post, I talked about an opportunity for Square to expand their current offering allowing us to switch our profiles and take money for charity, a high school fundraiser, etc. Above is only an option (mock-up above) on how I think they could do it:
It would be an option under “Accounts” that allows you to add a group/charity to take payments on behalf of. This would be by an “Add a Group” field which would prompt you to either search for a group, or to type in a a group/charity’s PIN ID. Type in the PIN and this would pair the device the that particular account/org.
Once the pairing is complete you have the option to switch between profiles to allow you to be able to switch over to your Group/Charity account to start taking donations at a Meetup, or anywhere.
