• CIO Asia : AIA Singapore launches mobile insurance app
  for iPad
• Press Release : AIA Singapore Launches World’s First Fully-Mobile Insurance Sales Quotation System On iPad (PDF)

Conduct all 6 stations of the Singapore National Physical Fitness Award (NAPFA) on your iPhone or iPod touch with Zimerick NAPFA™. Fully compliant with the official NAPFA rules, Zimerick NAPFA™ eliminates paperwork and administrative redundancies. It prevents students from skipping stations and automatically computes each award based on student’s age and best qualifying attempts. So you can focus on getting your students in shape and beating last year’s results.

Think of it as Groupon meets Chalkboard, with retail analytics built-in.

Sprooki is an iPhone app that allows location-based deals to be pushed to the users. It is the brain child of co-founder, Claire Mula. With 313@Somerset as their first retail mall, it has chalked up over 35,000 promotions viewed in the first three weeks.

Read the article on SGEntrepreneurs.com.

How it works

1. SPOT exclusive offers, when and where you shop.
2. SHOP through your phone, no queue to pay.
3. DROP by the store to redeem, now or later.

Whether you’re a shopper, a mall or a retailer, Sprooki has something for you. Visit Sprooki at www.sprooki.com or their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Sprooki.

Sprooki is featured on SGEntrepreneurs.

总第1433期，知识画报 Cover Page
Tuesday 19 July 2011

如果你是小四的学生，那么，当你下一次参观“新生水访客中心”时，你可能获得一个宝贵的机会，穿上实验室工作人员的白袍，当一回小小科学家。你将可以利用高科技的多媒体播放器iPod Touch探求新生水的秘密。

这是公用事业局为新生水访客中心设计的全新活动，目前是以全国的小四学生为主要对象。为了让孩子们学习水源知识时，更加生动和充满吸引力，该局花费约50,000元开发这项有趣的电子动漫问答游戏。你只要手握iPod Touch，到中心的各个展区游览，为动漫人物提出的问题寻找正确答案，这不但能在游戏过程中增进科学知识，还能赢取小奖品呢！
 
 
曾经玩过这个电子游戏的一位同学说：“iPod Touch是新潮的科技，有机会玩当然喜欢，这也使整个参观活动变得更加有趣。”

已是第三次来访的一位同学表示，如果有机会，还想同家人再来，好好阅读那些自己错过的展区资料。

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Every year, Great Eastern strives for originality and “something different” in its anchor corporate-culture building program.

The Solution

Synchronising with the “amazing race” theme of Great Eastern’s program for this year, Zimerick developed an exclusive application fulfilling the program’s objective.

The objective was building bonds amongst colleagues while they go through thick and thin together and promote camaraderie through the excitement of a time-based competition. Introducing a virtual race Great Eastern Amazing Race (GEAR), on top of the physical race, provided a unique proposition
for the program.

GEAR is an interactive virtual game where up to 4 teams, each with an iPod touch, race against each other around a virtual map of Singapore. The game can be played with 1 to 40 players as single players or teams in a relay sequence. Prior to the race, participants can personalise their avatars by taking a photo. Once all players are linked up, the race begins! At various cross-roads, participants are required to pick the path with the correct corporate value. A wrong answer will cause the avatar to explode and lead to a 10sec time penalty with participants taking on a different race route. The first one to complete the race will be the winner.

Though a seemingly simple game, GEAR is a race packed with lots of fun and content for participants. There are myriad little details that add layers to the game, such as incorporating various distinctive aspects of Great Eastern like the company’s mission and vision statements and properties in Singapore. The race is also made more realistic with side elements like fish appearing in the sea, flying birds and even a traffic camera that reflects racing speed.

GEAR is different from other Apple device apps in that it allows for real-time multi-player interactivity hosted on another iPod. This also lowers the cost of the game to the organisation while introducing a multi-media hand-held game as a special feature of the team-building programme.

The Results

GEAR was “something different” and the unique proposition to Great Eastern’s corporate-culture building program this year. As part of the program’s agenda, GEAR aptly encapsulated the company’s vision, mission and core values into an Apple application that was both engaging and educational. Positioned as the icebreaker activity for the program, GEAR was highly effective in creating excitement and high engagement levels amongst the employees.

One could tell the camaraderie spirit in play as the teams took group photos and ‘geared’ themselves to start the race. From the word “GO”, loud banter, cheers and laughter filled the room as the teams raced frantically to the end. Learning points from GEAR were quickly absorbed in a fun and non-obtrusive way. Employees’ evaluation of program has increased in satisfaction by 3.5%.

Great Eastern graciously shared how GEAR is used during its pilot training session.
See it in action!

Designed to captivate the minds of upper primary students, the NEWater Scientist promises an experiential learning journey leveraging on new technology such as hand-held touch pad devices.

Till date, the programme has garnered many positive responses from the students who are verbal on NEWater Scientist Facebook.

In the programme, students role play by dressing up as scientists, with a white lab coat and a yellow hard hat in a 2 hour challenge.

The challenge requires students to answer questions presented on the iPod via self-exploration of NEWater Visitor Centre and participating in various games at each station in the NEWater Visitor Centre gallery.

NEWater Filtration Gallery

The student will place the iPod touch on the Gallery Viewing Window and the app will then show how the filtration works within the pipes. Tapping on a button will ‘inject’ a bubble with the Student’s avatar which will then float through the pipes, behaving as a clean water molecule.

Finding the Sources of Water

Students are to locate sources of water which are littered around the user’s location. The app uses the in-built camera to show the surroundings where various icons are floating in virtual space. The student is then required to move/spin around so as to locate the correct icon and tap on it once it is in view.

Kayak Race

Our clean reservoirs, which are a source of water, can be used for activities like kayaking. This app attempts to make users aware that there should not be littering on our reservoirs.

• 做个小小科学家
  穿上实验室的白袍，到新生水访客中心做个小小科学家，以高科技的多媒体播放器iPod Touch解决难题，探寻治水秘诀。

• 当一回小小科学家
  如果你是小四的学生，那么，当你下一次参观“新生水访客中心”时，你可能获得一个宝贵的机会，穿上实验室工作人员的白袍，当一回小小科学家。

More than a hundred students from six schools has participated in the first run of the NEWater Scientist last saturday. A twelve year-old boy 蔡志聪 who was interviewed, said “We are delighted to be given the opportunity to play with new technology devices like the iPod touch which made the entire learning experience more interesting.”

联合早报网, Tuesday 22 March 2011

穿上实验室的白袍，到新生水访客中心做个小小科学家，以高科技的多媒体播放器iPod Touch解决难题，探寻治水秘诀。

为了让学习水源知识更活泼有趣，公用事业局为新生水访客中心设计了全新的新生水小科学家活动，并耗资约5万元开发有趣的电子动漫问答游戏。学生只要手握iPod Touch，自行到中心各展区，为动漫人物的问题寻找答案就可赢取小奖品。

该活动目前是以小四学生为主要对象，而当局希望在两年内让全国4万8000名小四学生试玩。

上个星期六，六所小学的100多名童子军率先试玩了这个游戏。12岁的蔡志聪说：“iPod Touch是新潮的科技，能有机会玩，我们当然很喜欢。这让整个参观过程更有趣。”

已是第三次前来新生水访客中心的邓宗曜（11岁）也显然意犹未尽，表示如有机会想再和家人一起来玩，并好好地阅读那些自己错过的展区资料。

不过，公用事业局3P网络署副署长德梅洛（Linda de Mello）表示，该活动暂时只开放给学校团体参加。至于一般到访家庭只能参加中心现有的向导活动。

德梅洛说：“我们的向导都经过专业训练，懂得根据参观者的年龄调整内容，所以即便是小朋友也不会觉得闷。当然，如能结合有趣的电子游戏，小朋友可能会更喜欢，但我们得一步一步来。”

中心目前仅有约50台iPod Touch，任何时候只能“应付”约100名学生。

但如果反应热烈，当局不排除进一步开发游戏软件，为其他年级的学生量身定做一套游戏，甚至在日后开放给到访中心的公众试用。

除了动漫游戏，当局还设计了活动册子，让学生在前往中心前翻阅，激起他们的好奇心。参观完访客中心后，有兴趣的学生还可继续到中心的面簿网站学习新知识。

新生水访客中心目前每个月迎来近1万名访客，其中约35%为学生。

“Service crew has been able to handle more requests now that customers are placing their own food orders”

These interactive menus are available at The Glass House outlet, opposite Dhoby Ghaut.

The app showcases the complete listing of dishes in an underwater theme. It allows the customers to search for a dish via the ingredients and even allows customisation to the order.

Instead of flipping through a physical menu, users scrolls through the various dishes neatly sorted in their category and upon reaching the end of the scroll, simply dragging the menu further will jump to the next category.

Tapping on the dishes in the menu will pop-up further details of that dish with well taken images and the ability to tweet via Twitter or post the dish to Facebook. The app also offers customers to complete their meal or upsize their dish.

Selected dishes are then added to the bucket where the customers can preview their order before sending it to the kitchen. If no drinks or desserts are ordered, it will even prompt the customers if they would like to add them!

“Fish & Co. marketing manager Jayss Rajashwary Rajoo said the chain’s Glass House opposite Dhoby Ghaut has seen an increase in its sale of cakes, which could be a result of the iPad menu automatically recommending desserts to customers”

While waiting for the food to arrive, the app entertains with snippets of information and jokes scattered amidst the dishes, some of the icons will even take you via the internet to web pages of relevant information.

The highlight of this menu is that it even has a built-in game once you popped out of the water, and takes you to the waters near an island where your objective is to throw sea creatures to the chef.

If you manage to take the highest score in the game, you can even place your Facebook photo on the menu itself!

• The Straits Times, Digital Life Cover Story – Finger Food
  Let your fingers do the talking. Customers can order through interactive menus on iPads at some restaurants
• Business Times – Businesses swallow the tablet and smile
  iPad impact touches restaurant menus, gas stations, schools
• 联合早报 – 在iPad上点餐
  本地一些餐馆将菜单iPad化，拉近和数码时代原住民的距离

• RazorTV – How the iPad is changing business
  The iPad is a sexy piece of technology, but more than just an attractive accessory you bring to cafes…
• RazorTV – iPad@Fish & Co.
  Food, games, social media – The Fish & Co. iPad app is pretty awesome. Check out how you can order a…
• RazorTV – Developing an iPad app
  Software developer Zimerick have created many apps for the iPhone and iPad, such as the Fish & Co….