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Big thanks to everyone who came – hopefully everyone got something out of it and most importantly we hit our goal – well sort of… more on that in a bit anyway.

For those of you who didn’t make it, the lack of female presence may have pushed the session down a bit of a boys toys route but we will try and redress the balance next time.

I thought I would write up the output from the session just so everyone gets the overview.

Ok, so we started with everyone’s favourite app and what the pros and cons of them were… in no particular order:

Pros:
Being impressive to others
Occupying time on journeys
Getting location based information immediately (meeting friends, arranging taxis etc.)
Getting real-time information (travel, news, sports etc.)
Listening to any music, anywhere (radio or friends iTunes)
Viewing visual based content (slick interfaces etc.)
Saving time
Having friend influenced information
Being able to know what a music track is instantly (Shazam)
Make you laugh for 30 seconds
Embedding additional content into things (QR, AR codes etc.)

Cons:
Some of the usability and design is poor
Having to use a low quality camera
No video
Location or internet based services don’t work underground (or without signal)
Battery life
No Flash

We then kicked on with our fifty ideas brainstorm which was reduced down to a short list based on levels of difficulty, removing any we thought didn’t make the grade (such as countdown clock, bankers v politicians, happy scale, voodoo doll, blood loss! and of course ‘good places to take a leak when you’re caught short’ )

Level 1: The basic ideas
Top Trumps (cheers paul)
Snap
Spin the bottle - swine flu detector
Old Phone Dial (Bakelite)
Beat the breathalyser (walk the line test)

Level 2: The slightly less basic ideas
Snake charmer game
Outfit picker (shake it in the morning and it gives you an outfit to wear from your wardrobe)
Keepy-upy game (bat and ball on a string)
Love Child (take a picture of you and your mate and see what your offspring would look like)
Pushy game (Curling, Sjoelen, Shove ha’penny etc.)

Level 3: The slightly more complex ideas
IT (tag, lurgy etc.)
Holiday exchange rate checker with friend locator - how hot (temperature!) are your mates.
TomCat (Geo-tagging areas, iGraffiti etc.)
Home James (a one button get me home service)

Level 4: The complex ideas
Find your drinking partner/mates at festivals etc.
League builder (for amateur sports)
London Walks (or any kind of walk that you can down load with points of interest)
Panini Stickers (collecting a series of items of something)

The complex ideas were temporarily discounted for the purpose of this exercise.

We then whittled down the remainder to the 4 finalists on which everyone had to vote in order…
and the results were in reverse order…

4th Place: Home James
3rd Place: Love Child
2nd Place: TomCat
1st Place: Pushing Game (Curling, Sjoelen, Shove ha’penny etc.)

So Pushing Game was the winner – however one last sting in the tail is that the games (in some versions) do appear to have already been built!

We need to do something new, dynamic and challenging, so a quick re-group of the team over here has decided that we are going for the next on the list TomCat.

The plan is to regroup next Thursday and re-address exactly what Codename: TomCat is and does… Look forward to seeing you then…

Hi All

Thanks for those attending our follow-up RFID session, with special thanks to Jon Bradshaw who gave us some great direction on the amazing potential for RFID technology for the event world!

From footfall tracking, sympathetic environments and real-time schedule updates and directions we are working towards some great innovations for presentation later in the year……..watch this space!!

Quick note as well to let you all know we are about to join the iPhone application revolution………..we will be running a session on Thursday 14th May to develop an idea to take the world by storm…………whatever comes out of the session WE WILL BUILD IT!

If you’d like to come along drop us a line and let us know you’ll be coming.

Updates to follow….

The first Tinnovation session of the Obama-era… And the first uploaded from the new Wordpress iPhone application!

Continuing with our research into iPhone applications we really wanted to produce an iTunes type navigation which would suit our clients with Product or Image Gallaries they’d like to display.  Our initial route was to try to emulate the functionality using the Safari browser and some Javascript magic, but this was way too slow.

Then we found that CoolIris (www.cooliris.com) had released an iPhone version of their application!

You can view the results by clicking the promo image on our Home Page.

Apple iPhone

Fresh out of our weekly tinnovation evenings we’re proud to announce that our website is now available as an iPhone Web Application.  We hope you find www.thetin.net/iphone to be the quickest and easiest way to browse our most important content on your iPhone.