Dinosaur Archive

  • iCitizen 2010: Dinosaurs in your phone?

    iCitizen 2010: Dinosaurs in your phone?

    While I was recently attending the iCitizen 2010 Symposium, Noora Guldemond, Head of Marketing at Metaio—a company focused on developing Augmented Reality experiences—showed me a few recent AR examples her company developed. This Jurasic Park example curiously doesn’t have the usual black and white “target” that I normally recall seeing in many AR demos. In [...]

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  • Vote to choose the next Pleo color

    Vote to choose the next Pleo color

    Here's your chance to change history, and influence the future. The makers of the Pleo are holding a vote to decide exactly what color the new Pleo should be when they change it later this year. Oh, and if you like the original color scheme, you can get free shipping until the end of February.

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  • LEDSAUR: Dinosaur-shaped desk lamps

    LEDSAUR: Dinosaur-shaped desk lamps

    A Japanese company called Furniture Design Agra has created the LEDSAURs [JP], a number of different dinosaur-shaped desk lamps. The dino skeletons feature LEDs in their heads and spine. And they look pretty cool. Agra offers four different versions of their Tyrannosaurus Rex, which are all made of stainless steel. Owners can bend the dino's joints to change its pose and switch the lights on and off via a remote control.

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