Be A Pizza Hero

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A new iPad app from Domino’s teaches fans how to make top quality pizzas by kneading dough, spreading sauce, sprinkling cheese, placing toppings and more. Race against the clock and rise through the pizza-making ranks to become a true pizza hero! Learn how to make pizzas by hand like Domino’s at Pizza prep school. Play through all 11 levels and see if you can survive the never-ending flow of orders on the busiest night of the year. Frequently asked question: does Domino’s really make pizzas by hand? Answer: Yes!

Unlock The Secrets Of Hugo

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Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese invites you to join him on a thrilling journey to a magical world with his first-ever 3-D film, Hugo, based on Brian Selznick’s award winning, imaginative best-seller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The free iPad application {link no longer active} allows you to use the unique iPad functionalities to bring you into the world of Hugo. Special scenes from the film come to life as you touch and move your device. The more the user engages with the application the more exclusive content that will be unlocked giving a first look at the film.

What Did They See?

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Check out a terrifying new URL destination at whatdidtheysee.com {link no longer active} to find out more about the mysteries of The Woman in Black, the new horror film starring Daniel Radcliffe. Start by peering through the doorway into a young girl’s room and use your webcam (or mouse) to shift the perspective within the room to see what’s behind the door and in the shadows. Pay attention and be brave and receive a custom photo that can be shared via Facebook or Twitter.

REI Brings The Great Outdoors To NYC

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REI is opening its first store in NYC. Download the app and user your phone to open up unique outdoor experiences simply by scanning any of our specially designed posters. There are six scenes, each one corresponding to a specific poster. There are over 400 posters around the city, which serve as portals to six virtual scenes. Use the map functionality on the app to find the posters nearest you. Log on to Facebook and send a virtual backpack {link no longer active} to a friend.

Social Life Audit

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Sponsored by Patron, Social Life Audit {link no longer active} uses Facebook connect and facial recognition and a database of 2.5 million bars to analyze your photos and check-ins and show you how your social life stacks up to your friends. Once you allow access the app aggregates a vast amount of your details to create an infographic style audit of your social life, including use of photos and check-ins then calculates a score based on categories including gender ratio, average mood, and social status updates. Users can then share and compare their results with their social network, the app also features a leader board of nationwide top scorers.

Making Comparison Shopping Into A Game

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Learn how to compare prices, shop smart, shop fast, get nutritional info, and do more things when you RedLaser it! It is the opposite of boring! RedLaser is a free application for comparison shopping and finding product information using a mobile device. The state-of-the-art barcode scanning technology was created specifically to deal with non-autofocus cameras and continues to evolve with innovative mobile visual capabilities. The RedLaser application has been downloaded over 8 million times, and the RedLaser SDK powers barcode scanning in hundreds of mobile applications. RedLaser is an eBay mobile application. Starting Black Friday 2011, one person will win each week leading up to the holidays. Scan any of the items on Redd’s wish list to win!

Take A Walkthrough Of The New Google Maps

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With the launch of Google Maps 6.0, {link no longer active} users of mobile devices running Android OS 2.1 and up will have the ability to use Google Maps not just to get directions to an IKEA, Macy’s or one of several airports, but to use the mapping functionality to figure out how to find housewares, ATMs, and your flight gate once you are inside. Google’s inside mapping will work similarly to its outside mapping. A little blue dot will move along with you to show you where you are, and the technology is even able to know what floor you are on – “the third dimension of mapping.” Google’s launch partners include 18 U.S. airports — notably some of the biggies, such as Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and San Francisco International Airport (obviously) — LAX and JFK are still not available. Some of the big-box stores such as IKEA, Macy’s, Bloomingdales and Home Depot have already been mapped, but not Target or Wal-Mart… yet.

The Roots Release Interactive App To Complement Concept Album

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Seminal hip-hop outfit and live jam band The Roots {page no longer active} are debuting a new app designed to provide an interactive complement to new concept album ‘undue’ {link no longer active}. A mix of interviews, lyrics, music video snippets and images, the application will delve deeper into the mythos surrounding the short life of fictional character Redford Stephens, around whose tale the record is based. Designed to elaborate further upon the faux inner city youth’s troubled life, the app will let viewers delve deeper into the events leading up to and precipitating the fallen drug dealer’s untimely demise. Serving as a multimedia complement to the album, a reverse narrative whose songs memorialize key moments in Stephens’ life that precursor his temptation and eventual fall, the program should provide fans added story perspective. Helping further deconstruct the character’s relationships, choices and motivations, its use of high-tech set pieces is designed to provide deeper understanding of, and emotional resonance with, the tale.

Race Across Land, Air And Sea!

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Coming soon to the Nintendo 3DS, the official site for Mario Kart 7 has launched giving fans an edge on how to race the fastest in the wildest Mario Kart game yet! Different sections highlight product features ranging from local multiplayer, download play and how to customize your kart. Express your personal style and racing preferences with a range of chassis, tires, and gliders. Bulk up with monster wheels for battle mode or opt for slim and sleek parts to zip through Grand Prix mode. Click on Items to see an array of devastating items within your reach. Blast your opponents with Koopa shells, use Mushrooms for a speedy boost, and discover all-new items that will give you an edge on these tricked out tracks.

Where Were You In ’92?

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A World of Nirvana is a website created as a tribute to Kurt Cobain. This online app uses Google Maps and YouTube APIs to create a catalog of Nirvana live concert footage. Select a year to see videos starting in 1987 to 1994. The location of the concerts are then shown on a Google map and when you click on one of the icons, the site pulls videos of that concert from YouTube and plays it in an info window. Scroll through the list at the top of the page to see all of the available concert videos for that year, with the date and location Nirvana played.