Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25
- Switched to #iiNet from Telstra and couldn't be happier. iTunes, XBox Live and ABC iView downloads not counted. Great service. #
- http://bit.ly/4cVddd 5 Technologies That Will Change Everything #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25
- Switched to #iiNet from Telstra and couldn't be happier. iTunes, XBox Live and ABC iView downloads not counted. Great service. #
- http://bit.ly/4cVddd 5 Technologies That Will Change Everything #
Barnes & Noble Nook eBook Reader
Barnes and Noble have launched a class beating eBook reader. Utilising two screens – an e-ink reader and a colour touch screen for navigation and control – it ticks all the boxes. It also includes a 3G connection via AT&T and WiFi. I suspect it will be some time before we see this device in Australia. It would be nice to dream that one day the “powers that be” see these devices as an opportunity rather than a parallel importing threat. Look out for an extensive review of the International Amazon Kindle here in the next week.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11
- Use Google PDF Viewer to open online PDF's. http://bit.ly/G1NeM #
- Sync your files online and across computers with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free! http://bit.ly/1ztIcy #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04
- My replacement Mac on truck for delivery today. Thank God! #
- Very cool. embedit.in — Any file, in your website http://bit.ly/VRVa2 #
- I use this and get great results. animoto – the end of slideshows http://bit.ly/13rhix #
- Another good one – very Photoshop like, but online. Online image / photo editor pixlr free http://bit.ly/2jx2vp #
- Delighted to be back on Mac – thanks so much to Apple for replacing my broken machine – its wonderful customer service!!! #Applecare #
Augmented Reality
- Image via Wikipedia
The other day I sat down with my seven year old daughter to show her a new iPhone app that I had installed. Not that this was a first – even my three year old has been quite competent with the iPhone since she was just turned two – a testament to Apple’s interface design! What made this occasion different was my insistence that she remembered where she was on this day – the first time she played with a true augmented reality application.
Such applications are really only possible since the advent of the iPhone 3GS which has a compass, GPS and accelerometers which give it a fairly accurate idea of its location in three dimensions.
For some time web applications such as Google Maps have been overlaying data onto the maps and we have become quite used to finding information about surrounding businesses in such a way. The iPhone 3GS allows developers to go one step further – taking away the 2D view of the map and replacing it with a real-time view of the world using the camera and screen as a viewport. The application I was playing with is called NearestWiki. You start the application and move the 3GS to look at the world around you – information badges appear in space which draw information from Wikipedia. I was surprised how many entries there were near my house – I should imagine that when visiting a city it would be fascinating!
Probably the most exciting of such applications at the moment is called the Bionic Eye – which sadly does not have Australian data at the moment. This shows shopping and public transport venues nearby. When one is selected simply point the iPhone camera towards the pavement and arrows appear giving directions.
I believe that fairly quickly such technology will find its way into, perhaps, an attachment for glasses and will become ubiquitous. Whilst the benefits of such data overlays are of interest in daily life – in medicine they are truly astounding!
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