Marketing on it's best - Zenrobotics

Zenrobotics is a Finnish company, who have invented really important product. They've made a robot that can identify and collect different materials from trash and this way improve recycling a lot. Their product is cool and meaningfull, but what I love the most, is their marketing videos.

This is a perfect example of an extremely enjoyable marketing video, where still the product plays a key part. There's many entertaining product videos and adverts out there, but too often the actual product doesn't really play a part on it. In this one, the robot plays a key part.

Check the video out:


Written by +Henri Hämäläinen

Future prediction videos

I really like these future prediction films. It's nice to see how view of the future is such a different by different people. In these future prediction films only one thing is for sure, future will never look like that.

Still in each of the videos there's always some things that makes sense and could perhaps become true in the future. This video is made out of Electrolux Design lab competion. It's a mixture of home and home electronics for the future.



Many of the ideas are quite cool and even bit realistic. Nice to see if any of the ideas will actually fly in coming 20-30 years.

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Mixed reality glasses

I've been intrigued by these augmented/mixed reality glasses since I first saw those. At the same time, those feel such unusable due to interfering with your vision, but still looking such a convenient on having your hands free. I can only imagine what rules and laws will be invented to regulate the usage of those. There's still something so cool about those. Here's the latest Google project "Project Glass", which seems to have an actual prototype already existing.
 

There's nothing really new in this Google concept though. Here's few years old concept video about the same subject from Nokia. I just hope that Google is more serious and longer in the way to actually implement this than Nokia was. i haven't head anything about this project since this video.

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Amazing footage of Northern lights

I run into amazing footage of Northern Lights from Finland. Finnish production company Flatlight Films have produced the most beautiful footage of Northern Lights I've ever seen.

According to their site, they have shoot the video early this year in North of Finland.

Check their video out: 

Aurora Borealis in Finnish Lapland 2011 from Flatlight Films on Vimeo.

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Old type of videotaping makes more memories

We were was just recently visiting my uncle in his cabin. When we got kids to sleep and night got darker, he found from his archives a 26 year old VHS-tape of an old birthday party. On that time (year 1985) videotaping wasn't that regular and taping was done in mentality of let it roll without planning.

Video was really full of memories. It was amazing to watch relatives and people from my childhood, some of them already passed away, having a party and just having fun. Also I was there as a little kid playing around with my cousins. Video was full of real life.

Video was a long one and there was no cutting done for it. I must say it would have been boring for anyone else that for those, who know the people on it. It was video that you can watch once in ten years to really live the memories again, more often it would just be dull.

Nowadays no one seems to be videotaping this way. All the videos I've seen shot are mainly these short ones and edited to be even shorter. Video from the party is minimised to couple of minutes full of action, filled with catchy music to prove the point. All are in this youtube format, 2-5 minutes is long enough.

This is fine now. No one would actually watch hour or two long tapes from a party. We're so used to these short videos that we lose our interest to longer ones after couple of minutes. For a longer term, that's a pity. In twenty, thirty years from now, it would be amazing to be able to really get into life of nowadays. We would laugh on our clothing, dancing, hair styles and the music. That's just how life goes on.

If you are one of those, who videotape on parties and everybody seems to hate it, I encourage you still to keep on doing it. Even most of people thing that it is annoying that someone is videotaping the party, there's going to people in future, who appreciate your actions.


Written by +Henri Hämäläinen

Amazing timelapse video by Terje Sorgjerd

Amazing and really beautiful video shot in many different locations (Check the Vimeo site for details). One of the most amazing ones I've ever seen.



The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

Here's the Facebook fan page of the artist TSO Photography.
 
Written by +Henri Hämäläinen

You can do so much cool stuff with video camera's

Here's one perfect example. I happen to love these high speed camera stuff. This really cool video was taped by Tom Guilmette:

"I was working a gig in Vegas with a brand new Phantom Flex high speed digital cinema camera. I had to try it out. In fact, I never did go to bed that night.I opened up a wormhole shooting at 2,564 frames per second."

Check it out, it's wicked cool:


Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo.

I've always loved video taping. We used to tape lot of cool stuff back at high school. I've also taken lot of videos with my N8 and I really enjoy editing videos at work when I get the change. Currently I don't own decent video camera, I just realized I must get one. All I need is money for buying and time to shoot and edit.

Written by +Henri Hämäläinen

Really cool video - year in 40 seconds

From @eirikso cool and beautifully produced video of year in one location.