Unless you were living in a cave for the past year, you would probably have heard of Bitcoins, or cryptocurrency in general. Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies made possible through the use of encryption algorithms to create a decentralized and public data store (also known as a ‘blockchain’). This blockchain is resistant against manipulation by any […]

The Brief AIA Singapore, an insurance juggernaut with over 1,000,000 customers in Singapore, was faced with a daunting challenge of re-thinking the customer pre-sales experience while digitally enabling a 5000-strong agency. iResource AIA Singapore helms one of the largest agency salesforce in the industry and its desire to continuously innovate and empower the next generation […]

River Safari, Asia’s first and only river-themed wildlife park, opened its doors to public in Singapore in 2013. The $160-million park under Wildlife Reserves Singapore features 69 exhibitions and over 6600 animal and plant species and specimens The Brief Due to the layout of the park, visitors often walked past various attractions and activities without […]

After slogging it out for the past few weekends (because weekdays are reserved for client work), our company Chatbot is now live on our Facebook page! Before we start developing this chatbot, we laid down some clear objectives: The chatbot must provide us an opportunity to showcase our strengths to our leads The chatbot must […]

While we are not developing mobile apps in Singapore, we tinker with home automation and other leading edge projects. Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. We use Node-RED as the core of our current home automation implementations for clients and our own use. However, like […]

Over the last weekend, our CTO modified an innocent looking standard wall clock to achieve a mysterious glow-in-the-dark effect. The UV light can be controlled via our existing home automation system, which is accessible via Apple Watch (as seen in the demo). The result is simply stunting. The video does not do justice as camera […]

Mobile apps are one of the most intimate way to reach out to your consumers and users as these apps resides directly on your consumers’ mobile phones. Imagine this – Singapore has mobile phone penetration rate of 148.9% way back in 2012. This meant that an average Singaporean owns more than a phone. Businesses know that they […]

Chatbots are all the rage these days, becoming the latest industry buzzword after “Cloud” and “Big Data”. I am no stranger to chatbots. In fact, Originally US recently built a chatbot for Mediacorp – Love Preparatory 预习恋爱 as a tie in to their latest blockbuster, Dream Coder, on top of its role as the technical […]

This article has been reshared on TechInAsia, Mediacorp Channel 8’s Facebook Page and Romeo Tan’s Facebook page. The first episode of Dream Coder aired yesterday, and it has drawn divisive opinions from my friends in the IT industry. Some got goosebumps and foamed at the mouth within five minutes of watching the show, while others […]

When you print a model on a piece of paper, the print is two dimensional. You can rotate and look at the paper from all kinds of different angle, but your model looks exactly the same. Doing a physical 3D model solves this issue, but highly impractical due to costs, portability and risk of damages. Creating […]