In the US, Amtrak train conductors will soon be using iPhones to scan passenger’s tickets, with passengers being able to print their tickets at home or present them on their smart phones. It’s impressive to see the amount of companies using these as part of their new business models, as iPhone and Android devices become established as a necessity in our daily lives. It’s only a matter of time before companies like Ryan Air introduce a similar system over here in the UK, making travel even easier and more convenient for everyone.

For more on this story visit the New York Times website.

The iPhone and Android apps Gooii are developing for the Imperial War Museum’s Social Interpretation project, have been featured in The Guardian. To read the full article visit:The Guardian Culture Professionals Blog

We are proud to announce Gooii are developing an exciting new iPhone and Android app, for the Imperial War Museum’s ‘Social Interpretation’ project.

The app, programmed natively for each device, starts with a QR code scanned from within the museum space. Once an object is scanned, information about that artifact is loaded into the handset, which the visitor can then comment on, collect and share via the IWM website, Twitter and Facebook.

For a more technical run down on the development process so far, please visit the IWM blog.

Surely the most obvious match since chicken and chips, the SEGfL Birdbox project is now on Twitter! School Birdbox updates will automatically be published to Twitter, live throughout the nesting season.

Click here to follow the feed now and catch up with all the lastest from this great project, or visit the Birdbox website at birdbox.segfl.org.uk

The Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) is the largest institution of its kind in the world, with over 2,000,000 items related to seafaring, navigation and astronomy in its care. We are committed to improving public access to these collections and the expansion of online access forms a key part in this policy.

Gooii  were commisioned to produced a custom website and content management system, with Google Web Toolkit Widgets. Gooii also programmed the interactive touch screen pods, that can be found in the ‘Sammy Ofer’ wing at the Greenwich Museum.

To view the site visit: collections.rmg.co.uk
Click here to view a video on how to use the touch screen pods.

‘Apps for Children with Special Needs’, or ‘A4CWSN’ as they are often better known, are a community committed to providing parents and educators with more information about Apps for the iPad and other such devices, that can benefit children with special needs in the home and school environment. Veronika Walshe is an administrator for the A4CWSN Australia Facebook page and here’s what she had to say about The ‘Fab-Phonics’ series of apps:

“Up, Up and Away is a wonderful app, I use it daily. This is the first one I brought and I brought the others soon after. My child just loves it, and there is a bit of humour in it as well – which always gets a laugh. This is just a great app. If your child is learning CVC words, really consider buying this and the others in the series.

…Please keep up the great work with these apps, they are really making a difference to our children’s lives.”

Many thanks to Veronika for her kind words. Please click here view the A4CWSN Australia Facebook page or to download the Fab-Phonics Apps please visit the iTunes store.

15 years ago everyone was banging on about “virtual reality”, a phrase that seemed to be applied to anything from enormous monitor wielding headsets, to almost everything interactive. Thankfully the buzzword has been buried with cyberspace, Y2K and Dirty Den but that doesn’t mean the ideals and notions have gone away. Instead, now they’re actually possible, they have less ambitious and more meaningful names like ‘Personal 3D Viewer’.

Designed to work with the Playstation 3, Sony’s Personal 3D Viewer dispenses with the futurisms, to provide a viewing experience that often fails leaves most company’s concept departments. When worn, the device provides two 720p OLED monitors, one for each eye, replicating the 3D cinema experience and proving ideal for 3D movies and gaming. Costing around £700, the headsets aren’t cheap but for those with plenty of disposable cash, this surely has to be the ‘must-have’ gadget of the year.

For the full review please visit the Digital Foundry website.

The early days for any console can be a tricky time for hardware companies. On one hand you have a fantastic and powerful new system but on the other, actual software to play on it can be a little thin on the ground. The PlayStation Vita, Sony’s successor to the PSP, looks to buck this trend.

Sony has just announced the first party launch games for its new handheld and it’s an impressive line-up that includes killer apps such as ‘Uncharted: Golden Abyss’, ‘MotorStorm RC’ and ‘WipEout 2048’. With a system rumoured to be almost as powerful as the PS3, could this be the device to knock the iPhone off it’s portable gaming perch?

The full line-up includes:

Uncharted: Golden Abyss
WipEout 2048
Reality Fighters
Little Deviants
ModNation Racers: Road Trip
Everybody’s Golf
Escape Plan
Gravity Rush
Hustle Kings
MotorStorm RC
Top Darts
Super StarDust Delta

With some impressive 3rd party games on the way too, Sony’s handled could truly be a thing of beauty – check out the mouth watering trailer for ‘Uncharted: Golden Abyss’ below:

We are very proud to annouce that the National Education Network & E2BN’s ‘Gallery’ website has been short listed for a 2012 BETT Award. The site, designed and programmed by Gooii Nottingham, has been selected in the ‘Digital Collections and Resource Banks’ category, with the winners to be announced January 2012.

To view the site visit: gallery.nen.gov.uk