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24 hours with Google Glass

Posted August 9, 2013 - 12:00 pm

I picked up a Google Glass headset yesterday. I've had it on and off my head for about 24 hours. Here is what my notepad of thoughts looks like.
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Augmented reality helps you find Instagram areas of interest

Posted August 8, 2013 - 1:42 pm

Say you find yourself in a new city and want to know where the most scenic spots are located, without dealing with a guidebook. Try this shortcut that uses the Instagram API in a different way.
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New HP app turns photos into videos

Posted February 27, 2013 - 11:30 am

Could HP's new Live Photo app change the way we take photos and/or videos?
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Cool app combines maps with live video

Posted November 14, 2012 - 2:10 pm

From Japan: Using augmented reality with mapping to better navigate around.
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Google Glass - The way of the future or the next Apple Newton?

Posted November 2, 2012 - 8:00 am

Time Tech recently announced their Best Inventions of 2012 list and included in the list is Google Glass, Google’s augmented reality eyewear project. This almost cliche looking piece of futuristic hardware has the potential to become as ubiquitous as cell phones or laptops. At least that’s the plan.
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AT&T predicts secure world with brainwave authentication, augmented reality glasses

Posted June 18, 2012 - 10:28 am

Remember those prediction ads from AT&T in the '90s with the "You Will" tagline? AT&T brings that back with this take on future security methods.
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'Portal' gun hits the real world

Posted June 12, 2012 - 3:00 pm

One big fan of the video game Portal has figured out how to bring the legendary wormhole-creating, character-teleporting Portal gun out of a game and into real life. The video is undoubtedly cool; the only question left is, how is he going to fix all those holes in his house?
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Movies come to life via iPad virtual reality app

Posted April 27, 2012 - 11:09 am

Augmented reality lets you watch animated dinosaurs from a movie poster.
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Philadelphia newspaper adds augmented reality via iPad app

Posted April 3, 2012 - 10:41 am

Augmented reality added to physical newspaper, but couldn't people just go to the website with their phone or tablet?
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NASA set to market headset that lets pilots (and drivers?) see through fog

Posted March 19, 2012 - 2:36 pm

Think your phone is smart because it can translate pictures of signs, overlay directions on roads you can't identify and tell you where the nearest good coffee (or Starbucks) is? NASA's version is designed to let you land a 747 with all the windows covered in spray paint.
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Beamatron combines Kinect with projectors for augmented reality awesomeness

Posted March 13, 2012 - 5:30 pm

System can project virtual items onto physical objects and have them react.
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Microsoft preps universal translator easier to carry than in Dr. Who or Star Trek

Posted March 12, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Microsoft Research shows off software designed to translate voices and text from real- and virtual-world sources without losing speaker's voice. If it works, Google Translate will have [nothing nada, rien, ingenting, ei mitaan, niente, Ничего] on Microsoft
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NYT relies on anonymous sources to break critical 'wearable' iPhone

Posted December 19, 2011 - 5:01 pm

Sources who'd rather not admit they work at Apple revealed to the New York Times that the company is working on a new generation of wearable smartphone products that sound as if they're designed to get consumers to buy more pieces of Apple to get the same set of functions.
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Advent Calendar goes virtual, 3D

Posted December 12, 2011 - 7:01 pm

Aurasma, which wowed the crowd at this year's DEMOfall event with its augmented reality application for the iPad, is back with another application, just in time for the holidays.
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Magic mixing with technology creates new illusions

Posted November 4, 2011 - 2:17 pm

The latest TEDTalk video podcast shows a presentation by Marco Tempest, an illusionist who shows some of the latest advances in technology and magic to basically create a stick figure to life and do all sorts of fun things.
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A video game you can drive

Posted August 5, 2011 - 12:00 pm

Watch out for that tree!
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Even the Smithsonian is foggy on mobile-app privacy

Posted May 16, 2011 - 9:44 am

The Smithsonian app Leafsnap identifies plant photos taken with iPhone's camera, but sends photos and location data back to be included in plant-location studies.
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Using Kinect as virtual fitting room

Posted May 12, 2011 - 10:23 am

Microsoft's Kinect used to keep women's clothes on while they try on other clothes.
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Tablets? Old news. Plug my PC into my brain, please

Posted January 6, 2011 - 5:49 pm

'Future PCs' might be lighter and simpler; more likely they'll be all but invisible and so integral to your life it's hard to tell whether you make the decisions or it does.
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Apps can get pizza delivered at zoo, keep tiger from eating you

Posted December 18, 2010 - 4:19 pm

In Japan, Domino's app uses GPS to deliver pizza to people, not addresses; iPhone app translates original text so you don't rely on mistranslation, no matter how funny.
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Big iPhone is watching you

Posted July 10, 2009 - 5:39 am

Am I alone in not particularly wanting my gadgets to recognize me?
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How dirty is your desktop? ... Metasploit creator gets 'owned'

Posted July 30, 2008 - 11:20 am

She may be the latest in augmented reality, but Alice is not your run-of-the-mill submissive girlfriend. First off, she's dressed up in a maid uniform -- until, that is, you strip her down to her skivvies (virtually of course). Offensive? Yes. Technology of the future? I certainly hope it gets better than this.
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