Is there more potential for AR on tablets?
http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/05/17/a-little-augmented-reality-check-from-metaio/
This is a clever idea.
Introducing The Lynx Stream — A Mobile App to capture and record unforgettable nights out. The Lynx Stream collects every video, picture, text, tweet, check-in and status update a group of friends makes to produce an automatic Stream of the night and highlight video, which can be watched and shared online.
Find out more and download Lynx Stream for free
http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/prne/unilever/48911/
Contributed by Joshua Spanier
Google has unveiled a new product, the Chromebook, a web-only laptop-like computer.
Read about it:http://www.google.com/chromebook/
Or watch the cutey-cute video that gives the Chromebook a voice made of plucked strings:
Visa is working on a product coming in Fall of this year to make digital payments easier, using an “e-wallet”.
How this will actually work is somewhat mysterious at the moment, but it will simplify online payments with a single click, and will also support NFC (Near Field Communications) payments for in-person transactions by allowing people to wave their NFC-enabled phones over a PayWave station.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1752776/visa-is-making-the-e-wallet-a-real-thing
Neurowear is a Japanese fashion company that concepts around the idea of the “Augmented Human Body.”
They have created a pair of wearable feline ears that sense brain activity and respond to your emotions.
If the wearer is concentrating, they stand up. When relaxed, the ears lie down.
Bizarre but fascinating. What other kinds of interactive devices could respond to brain waves?
http://www.refinery29.com/cat-ear-headbands-that-move-when-you-feel
Toothtag is a new Android app that allows you to tag people (by sensing their phones) and locations (by sensing wifi hotspots and more).
You can then customize actions that will happen when you are near those places or people.
You could get an alert when your friend is nearby, or automatically check in on Foursquare when you enter your gym.
Toothtag is actually only a showcase application created by a software company called Neuaer to demonstrate their proximity platform, on which they want others to build more applications that will use the device and location-detecting capabilities.
The platform (and Toothtag) uses Bluetooth, Wifi, and NFC (Near Field Communication) technologies.
Discovered via Laughing Squid
A Japanese university lab has created a machine and software to transmit a “kiss” over the internet to a person with identical twisting-straw-like hardware at the other end.
It’s an interesting but completely inaccurate and creepy interpretation of transmitting a tactile sensation over the web.
Which of the other 5 senses will be transmitted next? When do we get smell-o-vision on the web? :)
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/02/tactile-kiss-transmission-device-finally-makes-it-okay-to-smooch/
DisplayContent is a thought-provoking augmented reality proof of concept to come out of the Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon.
via fastcompany
Another Kinect hack – this one reminiscent of Radiohead’s House of Cards.
http://timbretantrum.com/2011/04/08/mndr-cut-me-out-video/
Google’s April Fools prank:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
And a roundup of this year’s big online pranks from TechCrunch, including Youtube 1911:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-2011-the-big-list/
Update from Katy Hill: Gmail motion made real!
