“Augmented ID is a TAT concept that visualizes the digital identities of people you meet in real life. With a mobile device and face recognition software from Polar Rose, Augmented ID enables you to discover selected information about people around you. All users control their own augmented appearance, by selecting the content and social network links they want show to others. Modifying your augmented ID is easier than fixing your hair in real life and, of course, TAT Cascades will make sure you look great! ”
All we need now is a big brother style database of face photos… Oh wait we have Facebook already!
“The World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows you what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality though the camera of the mobile phone.”
Steve Jurvetson (a personal hero of mine) just published this video of the very first test drive of the Tesla Model S. He’s an investor and he bought the first car….
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This is a demonstration of Siftables (cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands) by MIT grad student David Merrill. These impressive toys can do simple math, create music, and communicate with each other. Now this is what I call “hands on learning“.
Amazon has a new iPhone app in the wild. It’s interesting because it lets you take a photograph of something and then it tries to find a product on Amazon.com for you to buy. At first I thought it was some incredible algorithmic photo processing awesomeness like SnapTell.
Upon looking into it I discovered it’s just a front end to their Mechanical Turk system. You get results in 5 minutes to 24 hours. Of course this is not even close to fast enough.
