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Category: Emerging Technology
Bloom Box…the future of electricity is here!
Bloom Box is a new eco friendly electricity-generating device that takes fuel and air and turns it into power…it is a small power plant in a box which has promises to soon power our homes!
This new technology is already being tested by Google and eBay…here is the CBS 60 Minutes video telling you exactly what this box is all about…
Augmented Reality T-shirt
We have seen some great augmented reality ideas over the last couple of months. Now here’s a T-shirt that’s an augmented reality game 🙂
Now translate text in photos
The Google Goggles uses Google’s machine translation technology and image recognition capabilities to create an additional layer of useful context. So if the user takes a photo from his Android device, the application will translate the text in the photo in a fraction of a second! Currently it only supports German-to-English translations.
I can’t wait to the see the day when Google comes up with a realtime voice translation device. We will never need to learn another language. 🙂
Nokia Mixed Reality
A glimpse into Nokia’s crystal ball…interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch…
Nooka Augmented Reality Accessorizer
Nooka watches have created a video site where they let you try out their watches! All you need is a strip of the Nooka watch-representing paper to make this work. Once you watch the video below it all becomes clear…
New age business cards Part 1
Ever wondered what your co-worker did last weekend? Amnesia Razorfish in Australia made it easy to find out with a Microsoft Surface staff directory application.
The application uses Surface tags printed on all Amnesia Razorfish business cards to show extra information about employees such as blog posts, tweets and Flickr photos.
With business cards like these…I don’t see why the clients would not be jumping to work with them. 🙂
Square iPhone Payment System
Twitter’s inventor and ex-chairman, Jack Dorsey has just created another revolutionary product called the ‘Square iPhone Payment System’!
The innovation is in a small, plastic card reader that fits in to the headphone jack of an iPhone (or iPod Touch) and transfers the credit card’s swipe data to the app. After the employee enters the amount to charge, the customer confirms by scrawling their signature with their finger and then either one enters the customer’s email address to send the receipt to.
With Square, accepting payments will be faster, convenient and paperless. It will allow anyone from a hot dog vendor to a bike messenger to process credit cards on-the-go. 😎
You can read up more about the benefits on it’s beta web site SquareUp.com.
A demo video of the product can also be seen here…
Augmented Reality will be second only to voice
10 years back the Internet was the big upcoming thing and everyone was scrambling to make web sites…then last year thanks to the iPhone, mobile got the much needed push and this has now made it the next big thing for the coming decade. 🙂
Google, Apple, Nokia, Samsung…are going all out to build the best phones and this in turn is facilitating a rapid evolution of Augmented Reality…just the same way we saw Social Media evolve out of the Internet.
So here comes the future…
— The first mobile AR browser that premiered in the Netherlands this June 2009
— AR is also starting to be used with print…Esquire Magazine is offering some AR-enhanced ads in this December issue.
Adobe’s marketing chief Ann Lewnes said at the recent MIXX conference that Augmented Reality could become the direct mail of the 21st Century, by tying a physical mailing to a Web experience when someone holds a page up to her computer’s camera.
Augmented future beyond just mobiles
Few days back I wrote about Augmented Reality (AR) and how it was being used by various brands in their campaigns.
Today I have come across some exciting examples of Augmented Reality which have little to do with mobile location awareness! These implementations give a whole new dimension to what more can be done in this field.
Eye Pet
The Eye Pet is a virtual critter that users can interact with through a webcam and is currently expected to be released for the Sony PS3 game system soon.
Demo:
Sony PS3 Version with 3D menus:
AR Sketch
Hand sketching is used here as a natural way for creating Augmented Reality mechanical experiments. The user can sketch experiments and watch them simulated in 3D.
AR on natural shapes uses a real time shape recognition and pose estimation system.
So get ready for a future that is going to be all about ready to browse and interact with data on top of the physical world, through webcams, mobile phones and AR glasses.
A future where such experiences are mainstream is fast approaching. 😎