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[Inspiration] Avatar iTag?

Went to a toy store yesterday and I saw a bunch of Avatar (James Cameron) toy. (p.s. – Amcorp Mall’s toy shop)
Realized that those toy integrated with AR.

It’s around 70$SGD / RM170 each piece.

http://www.amazon.com/James-Camerons-Avatar-Thanator-Creature/dp/B002LE8KRS/ref=pd_sim_t_2

On the box it says something like:
Use your webcam and control the creature bla bla bla. It’s known as the iTag.

The app can be downloaded at:

http://www.avataritag.com/

Some article on the web:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mattels_new_web-enabled_avatar_toys_will_offer_augmented_reality.php

The video demo:

lol. It’s so fascinating that this piece of technology refuse to die yet.

[Rant] My respond to “Can Flash be saved”

Can Flash Be Saved

As a fellow Flasher for almost…5 years (unofficially 12 years! First met Flash during their Flash 3 era), it absolutely boiled my blood just to read the thoughts on the blog post. I might be over-reacting, but it seems the trend crowrd now tend to over-hyping HTML5 like the goddess of their time and throwing shits on Flash like everything bad is made of them.

Read the heated discussion here.

And on a sidenote, a good move by the giant, Google.

Rejoice ladies!

[AS3] Add Class to Stage using String

Was working on a project today and stucked and wondering how you can actually place a large number of custom classes in your Library and then call it out via a name that is formed out of a string?

Example: … “mcApple”+number+date

You can actually do it by using the method known as  “Class Reference”.

var yourString:String = “mcName”+”customName”+customData;
var className:Class = getDefinitionByName(yourString) as Class;
var mc:MovieClip = new className();

this.addChild(mc);

See? Doesn’t seem to be too hard and it’s really helpful especially when you’re still very much of a semi-developer/designer and need to access the library dynamically.

References:

[Inspiration] Thought of the Day by Danny Yount

“I always experiment and I always push. That is what client wants and it is what I am being paid to do. But if I ignore the brief then anything I do becomes worthless to them. Or if I design something that is too abstract and self-inflated then it becomes meaningless no matter how beautiful it is. It has to communicate and it has to be interesting and stimulating – in that order.”

Sherlock Holmes end credits sequence

Such an inspiring interview.

[Random] What’s for lunch today?

MC lunch. Took few pictures of the process. The result was…ehem. This would be officially the third time I cooked for lunch. This was a collaboration with Ms. Canny. *cough*


The end result, dishes including egg custard with minced meat, old cucumber soup, some kind of fish with ginger, and some messed up vegetables (I’d admit it’s me :P ). 1 Word of advice, if you know nothing about cooking, do not worry, I don’t as well, read up on the “correct” instruction in preparing a dish, this will at least make you enjoy your fruit of labor without pain in the toilet later :P


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