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The Inkling digital sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling is ideal for the front end of the creative process. Later, refine your work on your computer using an Intuos4 tablet or Cintiq interactive pen display.

In addition to capturing your sketch, stroke by stroke, Inkling allows you to create layers in digital files while you sketch on paper. Digital files are transferred to your computer using the Inkling Sketch Manager software, and later, exported to applications such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®. Files can also be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete, add layers or change file formats.

Inkling Specifics

The Inkling digital sketch pen is comprised of both hardware and software components. Hardware includes the pen and a wireless receiver that captures a likeness of the sketch and stores it digitally. The ballpoint pen uses Wacom pressure-sensing technology to detect how hard the pen is being pressed to the paper while sketching. These pressure variations will appear in the digital version of your drawing.

The receiver can be clipped to the edge of standard paper or sketchbooks and the position can be adjusted for left or right handed users to provide the receiver with an uninterrupted line of sight with the pen tip. When sketching is complete, the receiver is connected to the user’s computer via USB to transfer the digital files. Files are opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to manage layers or change file formats before transferring them for adjustment and editing in other creative software applications.

Inkling can store thousands of sketches and can export layered files from the Sketch Manager software directly to Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator® (CS3 or newer), as well as Autodesk® Sketchbook Pro (2011 or newer). Alternatively, files can be saved in JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, SVG and PDF formats for use with other applications. The pen and receiver store and recharge in a compact case making it easy to transport Inkling between, home, office, meeting rooms or any typical workspace.

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Our first big interactive project of 2009 is for Philips’ swish new 21:9 Cinema TV. Working in conjunction with our friends at Tribal DDB Amsterdam, we created both the rich, visually-led microsite as well as the jawdropping film that functions as its centrepiece. Directed by Adam Berg, the film (which clocks in at a totally coincidental 2:19) is easily one of our favorite pieces yet. Check out the project page for more.

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A Dutch company called yellowBird has launched a system that brings to video the kind of 360-degree point-of-view-changing capability provided by Google Streetview. According to the company, the system uses a “Google Streetview-like” six-lens camera that creates an “all-encompassing…3D video” which can be played online on any computer equipped with Adobe Flash. The company says that its co-founder, Rafael Redczus, started working on the technology behind the new system almost a decade ago: “The viewer becomes the director, who can choose what he wants to see from his position,” Redczus said in a prepared statement. “Nearly everyone has a powerful computer in combination with a broadband connection. Furthermore, Adobe Flash is now standard on every computer. The latest versions of that technology provide optimum support for online film and interactive 3D functionality. There are unbelievable opportunities for this new dimension in online experiences. Film producers can use it for their trailers on the Internet, city marketeers can use it to attract tourists, dance events become virtually physically accessible for millions of visitors, documentaries and sports events become probing experiences, whilst this technology will bring about a revolution in the world of advertising. Advertisers are looking more and more to the Internet. This offers them unrivalled opportunities to present themselves.”

According to yellowBird, the six-lens camera that its new system employs can be either in a fixed location or, for example, “floating above the head of a cameraman moving through a crowd or driving on the road.” Once video is shot, the company says, it is “stitched into one stream, which is a process that requires lengthy calculations by extremely powerful computers.” yellowBird says that it has a relationship in place with Dutch CDN technology and services provider, Jet-Stream, which allows it to have “very powerful hosting servers with ultrafast connections” and to expand its server capacity in real time, in line with demand. This, it claims, means that “thousands of viewers worldwide could view the same streaming 3D image interactively at the same time.”

A demo video of yellowBird’s new system is available here: click here