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Re: Announcing X-Pod World
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:58:31 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Huw Millington wrote:
> Earlier in the year I was invited to Billund to meet the creative director
> of the Designer (and other) product lines to hear about an idea he had for a
> website.
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> The idea was simple: X-Pods are great for taking LEGO with you wherever you
> go, so encourage people to take them on their travels and to photograph them
> to show where they have been and what they built.
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> You may have seen similar sites for iPods (e.g.
> http://gallery.ipodlounge.com/index.php?cat=46) and this is probably where
> the idea originated, but in this case there's the additional element of
> creativity, which might be inspired by the location you are at. For example,
> building a plane at an airport or a fish by the sea.
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> So, I therefore present to you X-Pod World at http://www.x-podworld.com
> which I hope will encourage you to get those pods and cameras out and get
> building and photographing.
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> The paint on the site is still wet and, while I have been testing it over
> the last few days, you may encounter the odd spelling mistake or bug, and I
> encourage you to send me any comments or suggestions.
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> Phase 2 of the project will be to introduce maps to allow you to pinpoint
> where in the world the photo was taken and to browse the gallery
> geographically, a bit like the Lomography world browser at
> http://www.lomography.com/worldbrowser/ but almost certainly not as
> sophisticated. (Ideas welcome...)
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> Huw
Excellent idea!
It will be very interesting to see where the X-Pods go, like an X-Pods guide to
the galaxy :-)
A travelling X-Pod can certainly provide more action and variation to the image
than an i-pod can.
Olof
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