76 Synthesizer is a stunningly designed music app for the iPad. Designed to look like a vintage analogue valve amp the result is a very slick, realistic interface full of textures including wood, bruched metal and beautiful light effect. See more of it here.

The only thing possibly cooler than the interface design is the website for the app. You must check this out!

Locus OS Interface from Barton Smith on Vimeo.

Designer Barten Smith has combined elements of Microsoft Zune with touches from iPhone/iPad and even Mac OSX interface to create this concept for a Microsoft home computer. Although it looks pretty nifty, we’re still not sure touch screen home computers are the way forward. Time will tell i guess. You can find out more here.

Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.

Listen up designers. This amazing piece of software (in development) allows users to place a 3D (CAD) model directly into a photograph, rendering it with realistic lighting and reflections. All this without the need for backplates or even HDR images. We don’t know how long this product will take to hit the market, but we’re sure some big wig software company is kicking it’s self for not getting there first. We can easily see this as a great plugin for Photoshop!

Check out the video to see this thing in action! It’s impressive!

When grocery chain Tesco wanted to expand their market share in South Korea, they came up with a brilliant idea. The brief was to try and make the Korean subsidiary Home Plus the leading grocieries retailer in South Korea without opening more stores. The answer could give us an insight into the future of global retailers efforts to gain peoples custom…… Read the rest of this entry »

Here is the winner of the Samsung Smart TV Challenge competition. The winning submission was titled ‘Astro Recommends’ and was a video on demand (VOB) app that lets the user rate, recommend and share the video content they are watching with others. You can see all the winners here.

Or at least its trying to. New product from the Yves Behar led Fuseproject. Check out more images and the vid after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »