Interactive screen time for kids: Do educational iPad apps teach toddlers...
No more plopping preschoolers in front of videos to “zone out.” With the emergence of touchscreen tablets and e-readers, screen time has become interactive—and thus less guilt-inducing for parents who...
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Turning NYC’s Iconic MetroCard Into A Massive Urban Game | Co.Design
Mayday is proposing an alternative that could please critics on all sides of the table. Their idea is to let advertisers engage New Yorkers in an urban game, where each rider holds a key to unlocking a...
View ArticlePuma Conducts ‘Scientific’ Research To See If Men Love Football More Than...
Puma in partnership with researchers at the Bristol University, is trying to find out what men love more: their soccer team, or their partner. The research involved 20 Newcastle United fans where their...
View ArticleClif Bar Gets People Geo-tweeting for a Coupon | Promo
To receive the coupon, part of a much larger sampling program the brand engages in on a regular basis, the tweeter is directed to the website to download the offer. So far about 300 coupons have been...
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MIMA Summit 2012 – Guy Kawasaki & Jane McGonigal – October 10, 2012 –...
Minnesota is the home to an amazing advertising, marketing, and interactive development community – some would say that everyone who works the state that I call home is ‘Above Average’. No other...
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Childrens Museum Promotes Creative Kids Play With Cardboard Box Shop |...
To promote the “Unboxed: Adventures in Cardboard” exhibit, The Chicago Childrens Museum launched Mister Imagines Toy Store, a pop-up store in Chicago’s Wicker Park. This toy store, however, was nothing...
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Is It Finally Time For A Pride And Prejudice Video Game? – PSFK
Jane Austen’s famous novel is already about subverting traditional systems, so it could lend itself quite well to the digital medium. via Is It Finally Time For A Pride And Prejudice Video Game? – PSFK.
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Soccer Out of Context: the AL Central — M.Willis
An intelligent mashup of my two favorite sports – Baseball and Soccer. Mark Willis shares his football fashion vision of the American League Central teams. Mark’s reimagination of the Minnesota Twins’...
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Why We Keep Playing the Lottery – Nautilus
Why do people spend billions in the relentless pursuit of the improbable – one lottery ticket at a time? Simple, selling the possibility, no matter how infinitesimal, that the dream could come true....
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Long Live Duck Duck Grey Duck
I couldn’t agree more with Katie Heaney’s Minnesota memories of Duck, Duck, Grey Duck. I was pleasantly surprised to see a map I created more than a year ago used to illustrate the point in her...
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The History Of Rock Paper Scissors – Rock Paper Scissor Strategy, How To Win...
The Ancient Secrets Behind Rock-Paper-Scissors/Rochambeau. Source: The History Of Rock Paper Scissors – Rock Paper Scissor Strategy, How To Win At RPS
View ArticleThe Late Show Accent-Off: Minnesota Edition – All True
Nice (see how I did that) showcase showdown between the ‘Up North’ vs. “The Cities’ accents. My cousin Eric Pollard (AKA Actual Wolf) was right, Comedian Maria Bramford went “Full Keyboard Lounge...
View ArticlePokémon Super Bowl Commercial
Celebrate 20 years of Pokémon by watching (carefully) the 2016 Pokémon Super Bowl spot. Can you find all of the easter eggs hidden in the commercial? Source: Did You Catch All of the Easter Eggs in...
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Hidden Beauty at Abandoned Bowling Alleys
Photo: Edward Blake (edwardhblake) Abandoned bowling alleys lie scattered across the landscape as if the gods of recreational sports had laid ’em low with a single thunderous strike. Source: Pinned...
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Virtual Reality Exercise is On The Run
A combination of virtual reality concepts and wearable technology offers a solution to that part of the exercise motivation game. Source: Virtual Reality Exercise to Overtake Your Workout Routine | PSFK
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Leicester City – A Diverse Home of Champions
How Leicester City is the first city in the United Kingdom with less than 50 percent of the population identifying as “white British,” which some people see as the inevitable destiny of an island...
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Can Virtual Reality Revolutionize Education?
Virtual reality’s immersive qualities have been researched for decades. In the mid-1990s, several years before The Matrix was released, controlled studies were conducted to test VR’s effectiveness as...
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The Beautiful Game’s Undershirt Goal Celebration
Along with the wonder goals, penalties, sending offs and pitch invasions, some of football’s most memorable moments have come in the form of the undershirt celebration: hastily scrawled or ironed-on...
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Duck Duck Grey Duck vs Duck Duck Goose Trends 2017
Duck Duck Grey Duck vs. Duck Duck Goose – State By State Trends – 2017 by Christopher Pollard
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Juventus New ‘beyond football’ Logo
The Old Lady has a new set of clothes. Juventus, one of the world’s most famous and most successful football clubs – known in Italy as La Vecchia Signora – has launched a new logo and an ambitious...
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