Wonwei and Síminn, Iceland’s largest telecommunications company, joined forces during the 2011 Iceland Airwaves music festival, creating an interactive music installation at the Reykjavik Art Museum.

The five-day festival annually attracts thousands of international music lovers to the city center of Reykjavik to watch acts like Björk, Hot Chip, Bloc Party, Ratatat, Sigur Rós, GusGus, and Crystal Castles. Síminn is one of the festival’s main corporate sponsor and the official mobile app provider. [Read more]

Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design collaborated on an interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, named PRISMA 1666, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms. [Read more]

After splitting our time recently between New York and Shanghai, one thing that repeatedly is on our minds is the exchange rate between the US Dollar (USD) and the Chinese Yuan (CNY). Going back and forth, there always seems to more left in your pockets of the currency where you just came from, rather than the one appropriate for your current location. [Read more]

The failures and limitations of a certain approach or a technique can often lead to interesting outcomes. Face detection is a well studied machine vision problem but the solutions do not always return the expected results. So, what happens when a basic face detection algorithm is applied to buildings? Wonwei to find out. [Read more]

At a gathering of makers and tinkerers at the Xindanwei co-working space in Shanghai last weekend, Harald Haraldsson, the founder of Wonwei, gave a short talk about creative open source tools and their use in customer acquisition and monetization. [Read more]