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Category Archives: apps
Mapping Westeros in Ireland
The hugely popular HBO show Game of Thrones has been a real boon for Northern Ireland tourism. With dozens of filming locations around the region, Tourism Northern Ireland has teamed up with Northern Ireland Screen to create an interactive app mapping … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Books, Europe, Film, Tech, Tourism
Tagged A Song Of Ice And Fire, Belfast, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, HBO, Northern Ireland
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Layover With A Local
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines wants to turn your layover into a trip during your brief time in the Netherlands. Although the project’s name may sound a bit salacious, KLM simply wants to offer the air traveler with a stopover of … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, apps, Europe, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Amsterdam, KLM, Netherlands, Schiphol
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Decoding Bosch
For someone who has been dead for five hundred years, Hieronymus Bosch is getting an awful lot of attention these days. The Noordbrabants Museum in the painter’s home town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in southern Netherlands has an exhibition featuring forty of … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, apps, Art, Europe, Film, History, Museums, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Hieronymus Bosch, Museo del Prado, Netherlands
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Airbnb for Bikes
Copenhagen-based Donkey Republic has created what just may be a better alternative to city bike-sharing programs. AirDonkey users log-on with a simple app and reserve a bike within a chosen “hub” area. The app’s map guides the renter to a … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Europe, Public Transport, Tech, Tourism
Tagged bike sharing, bikes, Copenhagen, Vélib'
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Not Obsessed With WiFi
You may have heard about New York’s plan to create a city-wide free public wifi network based on freestanding kiosks. Well, yesterday the roll-out of the project began . The initial four units—on 3rd Avenue between 15th and 19th streets—from … Continue reading
Airport WiFi Simplified
I don’t know about you, but I always find myself getting annoyed whenever I try and log-on to airport wifi networks. For mysterious reasons, these networks seem to turn the process of accessing wifi into a torturous process. Now, there’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, apps, Public Transport, Restaurants, Tourism
Tagged Air Travel, apps, WiFi
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Coast to Coast
Brooklyn-based designer Tom Harman took a three day train journey from New York City to San Francisco this September. Along the way, he took short videos using his iPhone. He edited the footage into a compelling under five minute video. … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Film, Photography, Public Transport, Tech, Tourism, USA
Tagged Amtrak, NYC, San Francisco, Trains
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Terms and Conditions
New York City-based artist and graphic novelist Robert Sikoryak has solved the dilemma that every iTunes user faces: how to slog through the deadly boring legal terms and conditions of use. He has created a comic book-style exploration of the … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Art, Tech, USA, Writing
Tagged Alison Bechdel, Apple, Chester Gould, Graphic Novels, iTunes, R.Crumb
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Three Magic Words
What3words is an entirely new universal address system that may just transform how we navigate the world. It divides the Earth into 57 trillion 3m x 3m squares and assigns each plot a unique three word descriptor. For example this … Continue reading
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