Australian based interactive design teamENESSbuilt a very cool futuristic skateboard ramp for the Premiere of Tron Legacy in Melbourne, Australia, and a few Aussie skaters got to live out their boy dreams of participating in the real life skateboard computer game. The ramp’s custom software captures 3d mapping of the skateboard ramp and real-time tracking of the skateboarders. Each rider is equipped with an iPod Touch with apps to measure air time and trigger effects, while infrared lights and cameras are used to track the skaters’ positions....

While Facebook photo galleries are a perfectly adequate way of keeping track of memorable events,MemoriesHQ, a new product from a Ukrainian team, is taking things a step further by offering a way of creating multimedia records of your treasured memories. Taking the form of a Facebook app, it invites you to bundle up any combination of text, photos and videos into a memory. You can tag friends into the memories, thus allowing you to share memories with the people who were there....

Mendeley, the service that tracks and ranks academic papers in the same way that Last.fm does music, is holding a $10,001 ‘Battle’ to encourage developers to make use of its API. The API,launched last year, allows coders to make use of what the London-based startup is calling “The world’s largest crowdsourced research database”. With all that academic data available, there’s real potential for some interesting projects. Announcing the contest, Mendeley writes: “We want to see a world in which science is mashed up… with anything....

Every Twitter client out there gives you a list of your mentions. But to see the relationships between you and the people that you mention is time consuming and usually involves a lot of scrolling. Go one step further to try to trace the way that other people are connected to you and to other Twitter users by the conversations that they have and it becomes an impossible task. Mentionmapis a sweet tool that not only allows you to see the people that you have the most conversations with but also the way that other Twitter users connect to you....

Did you knowSHIFT is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of mobility during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! On the first day of the 2021 IAA Mobility Show in Munich, Mercedes-Benz introduced a lineup of two brand new electric models, plus two concept EVs as a bonus. Since their names are very similar, I have given them the following nicknames: the “little brother,” the “beauty,” “the beast,” and the “ugly duckling....