Ben Cooper

Group Innovation Director M&C Saatchi Sydney. Co-Creator O Six Hundred Kayak. Proud father. Loving husband. British.

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Tetris on a Tower Block

Published April 27, 2006

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I/O Brush: Photographic paintbrush that paints with movement and colour

Published March 14, 2006

I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has

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Flickeur – create a unique film with a click

Published February 28, 2006

Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. I’m intrigued by this, think about it for a

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Take Note – Handwriting without using your hand

Published February 27, 2006

This is our first major project as Engage, Host’s new interactive arm. The site is for Staedtler. It connects on and offline through the written word. Inviting site visitors to say something, whether

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Web2MemeMap – Results of “What is Web 2.0”

Published February 14, 2006

Web2MemeMap Originally uploaded by Tim O’Reilly. Result of a “What is Web 2.0?” brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005. Meme maps adapted from business model maps developed by Beam

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Web2.0 – extended mindcloudmap

Published February 14, 2006

Web2.0 – extended mindcloudmap Originally uploaded by kosmar. This is fantastic, make sure you click through to the actual flickr page as you can explore links to Web 2.0 sites through the picture. Many thanks to

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Minority Report – Touchscreen Interface Style

Published February 14, 2006

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What’s Up – RSS News Reader

Published February 13, 2006

What’s Up is a flash based RSS reader designed by Jeroen Wijering. I love the interface, its captivating to watch – when you get a moment suggest a link to your favourite feed. Here is

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Lynx Alphabet Girls

Published December 21, 2005

Received a slightly different Christmas card to day. Two rather sexy girls proceeded to spell out my name and a Christmas message in lots of interesting positions. No doubt this is flying around the

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Game On!

Published December 21, 2005

I like this photo from the Game On Exhibition pages of the Barbican website.

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Which Side Are You On?

Published December 20, 2005

Black = function, titanium = form. Well according to the ‘Persuadatrons’ on the Lenovo IBM Thinkpad micro-site Which Side Are You On?. I like the idea of inclusion in colour preference, I doubt this actually

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Interactive Mechanical Mirrors

Published December 19, 2005

The 4 mechanical mirrors are made of various materials but share the same behavior and interaction; any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly reflected on its surface. The mechanical

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VoIP Watch: Skypecasting

Published December 16, 2005

That means someone in London could in effect Skypecast English Premiere League Football to an ex-pat in the USA. Vice versa someone here in the USA could Skypecast NBA basketball, which has rights deals

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BBC 17 | Lean Mean Fighting Machine founders dead – Fri, 16 Dec, 2054

Published December 16, 2005

The four founders of Lean Mean Fighting Machine; Dave Cox (79), Dave Bedwood (80), Tom Bazeley (81), and Sam Ball (79) died last night in a freak hover-board accident. The four met at an online

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24 HOUR COUNT

Published December 15, 2005

The 24 Hour Count is a multi-media blog band made up of Colorado artists Mark Amerika, Rick Silva, and Nathaniel Wojtalik. For this 24 hour online blog performance, the artists will use a variety

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