http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:25:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/psfk-new-york-city-2012.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:57:14 +0000 We have been working to bring you the most inspirational event yet. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/douglas-rushkoff-social-media-week.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:30:03 +0000 Best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff, shares his thoughts about how Facebook and Twitter spark local movements rather than large-scale ones -- in the kick off to our Social Media Week coverage.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/piers-fawkes-about-psfk-malware.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:58:42 +0000 Readers' machines were not affected by the recent attack on our server.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/social-data-use-police-governments.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:13:56 +0000 What happens when the malicious organizations use social data? Get more good guys using social data against them.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/tv-radio-viewers.html Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:00:31 +0000 Once everyone gathered around to listen to the wireless, now it's something that plays in the background inside barber shops and office blocks.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/e-style-community-teams-up-with-facebook-timeline-to-track-your-look-history.html Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:30:14 +0000 Pose collaborates with the social network to let you track your favorite outfits over time and see what your friends and network are wearing.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/culture-eats-strategy-for-lunch.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:46:19 +0000 Performance-oriented cultures achieve better financial growth, have high employee involvement, strong internal communication, and acceptance of a healthy level of risk-taking in order to achieve new levels of innovation.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/10ways-to-turn-your-passion-into-your-business.html Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:15:15 +0000 Staying true to personal values and doing what you love is the best way to exude confidence in your business and achieve lasting success.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/game-functionality-and-systems-future-of-gaming.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:00:24 +0000 Developers are using a combination of natural user interfaces, digital technologies and networked sensors to create new game play experiences to make their games more compelling and accessible to a wider audience.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/game-creates-worldwide-zombie-hunt-using-ar-future-of-gaming.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:40:54 +0000 Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary is a massive multiplayer game powered by AR that requires completing location-based missions and casting spells on real world locations.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/own-the-empire-state-building-check-in-powered-monopoly-game-arrives-in-nyc-future-of-gaming.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:30:54 +0000 Metropoli combines the check-in features of location- based social networking website Foursquare with a variation on the popular board game Monopoly.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/game-converts-cities-into-real-time-battlefields-future-of-gaming.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:20:36 +0000 ‘Shadow cities’ is a location-based, multiplayer game for the iPhone that allows players to compete for real world territory, in real-time.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/augmented-audio-game-immerses-runners-in-zombie-infested-world-future-of-gaming.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:10:06 +0000 Zombies, Run! is an augmented audio running game that challenges users to rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse by completing location- specific tasks while running in the real world.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/game-functionality-and-systems-real-world-game-environments.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:00:21 +0000 The native GPS-capabilities on mobile phones are being leveraged by developers to transform real-world settings into game environments. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/kill-screen-gaming.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:01:19 +0000 PSFK picks the brain of Kill Screen magazine founder, Jamin Warren, about the exciting breadth of the current gaming community and why he thinks that games that affect our moods are the next frontier.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/wearable-sensors-offer-real-time-snowboarding-performance-and-stoked-readouts.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:50:32 +0000 PSFK spoke with Nokia, a company incorporating wearable sensors into snowboarding which communicate with a smartphone via Bluetooth for real-time performance capture and readout.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/sensor-tech-grants-snowboarders-game-like-performance-readouts-future-of-gaming.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:40:49 +0000 ‘Push Snowboarding’ is a project that incorporates Nokia’s sensor technology into a Burton snowboard and platform for real-time performance capture and readout.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/wearable-tech-converts-gamers-everyday-actions-into-opportunities-for-play-future-of-gaming.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:20:45 +0000 The start-up Greengoose uses motion-powered sensors and accelerometers to track a user’s everyday activities and credit them online. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/embedded-soccer-boot-offers-in-game-performance-readouts-future-of-gaming.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:20:26 +0000 adidas has created the adizero F50, a soccer shoe with a microchip embedded in its out-sole that records a wide array of performance related metrics. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/sensor-embedded-kitchen-utensils-gamifies-cooking-for-future-chefs-future-of-gaming.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:10:41 +0000 The French Digital Kitchen is an innovative cooking environment that features cooking utensils and ingredient containers with digitally embedded sensors alongside interactive displays, which track and evaluate a student’s activity.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/game-functionality-and-systems-life-sized-game-pieces.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:00:31 +0000 As intelligent sensors are embedded into every day products from clothing to sports equipment and even cooking utensils, people are able to track and analyze the data collected from a wider variety of daily activities. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/offscreen-toys-spring-to-life-in-a-videogame-future-of-gaming.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:40:44 +0000 US videogame developer Activision is set to launch a game called 'Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure' that incorporates physical toys into digital gameplay.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/racing-game-converts-ipad-into-interactive-playmat-future-of-gaming.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:30:39 +0000 The Walt Disney Company has created Appmates, a game for Apple’s iPad that features game-pieces which can interact with an iPad screen]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/connected-teddy-bears-operate-as-game-pieces-in-virtual-world-future-of-gaming.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:20:46 +0000 The Build-A-Bear Workshop toy retailer has released special-edition bears which can be connected to Microsoft’s gesture-based gaming system, Kinect.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/idevice-construction-game-melds-offline-assembly-with-digital-score-future-of-gaming.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:10:49 +0000 Construction toy manufacturer LEGO created an interactive game titled ‘the Life of George’ which tasks players with reconstructing on-screen virtual models using real LEGO bricks.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/game-functionality-and-systems-mixing-realities.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:00:04 +0000 Improved image recognition and sensor technology are bridging the physical-digital divide, enabling toys and other objects to serve as interactive game-pieces when used in combination with tablets, smartphones and gaming platforms.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/virtual-cubes-link-to-create-educational-game-future-of-gaming.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:40:09 +0000 The Sifteo cube is a modern update to children’s building blocks that allow wireless interaction between individual cubes. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/racing-game-supports-gameplay-from-four-idevices-simultaneously-future-of-gaming.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:30:23 +0000 Australian video game developer Firemint has developed a feature for its game Real Racing 2 that enables a multiplayer split screen.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/wearable-device-immerses-users-in-digitally-enhanced-game-like-environment-future-of-gaming.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:20:32 +0000 French designer Maxence Parache's has created a wearable device that layers a digital experience on top of the physical world.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/interactive-ping-pong-game-takes-the-outdoor-stage-future-of-gaming.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:10:58 +0000 An advertising campaign created for the Mcdonald’s in Sweden allowed pedestrians to play ping-pong on a giant screen in a Stockholm town square.]]>