Tag Archives: technology

Apple’s Knowledge Navigator Video

 This is simply an incredible example of having a vision and sticking to it – for as long as it takes. Even if that requires waiting for someone to create the portable laptop, the World Wide Web, Skype VOIP services, video encoding, Wolphram|Alpha knowledge engines, multi-touch UIs, colour screens, miniature cameras, voice recognition and synthesis, AI...

‘Find my car’ app can also catch crooks

This is an interesting “emergent usage” of an app. Westfield have added a function to find your car in their carparks – by scanning the CCTV images, but the police could use it to find your car if stolen.

via SMH

I thought it’d be great to integrate the city’s CCTV network with Facebook face-recognition and get automatic updates on nearby friends.

“Facebook Alert: Hi, you have 3 ex-girlfriends and 1 mother in-law within 300 metres, would you like to go offline now?”


Minority Report: expect commercial spatial interfaces in 3 years
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Oblong Industries, led by Chief Scientist John Underkoffler (the guy who advised the filmmakers behind Steve Spielberg’s 2002 film Minority Report) have unveiled a Spatial Operating Environment (SOE) called Mezzanine. Think of it as the first commercially viable step towards the gesture controlled interface made famous by Tom Cruise in the movie. Oblong have been [...]

MightyText – calls & texts from Android to PC in real time

via Engadget: Have you ever missed an extremely important phone call or text because you were too busy finishing those TPS reports on your personal computing machine? There’s a Chrome add-on for that. We went hands-on with a new extension (and accompanying Android app) called MightyText, a free notification service launched today that syncs your phone’s texts [...]

Google Wallet

 via New Media Age: Google Wallet takes mobile marketing to the next level Google Wallet and its use of NFC to allow both voucher transmission and redemption signals a new era for the discipline of mobile marketing. Near-fields communications (NFC)…

BlueFin Labs Links TV Viewing With Social Conversation
PULLING IT IN Bluefin pullsin live TV on satellite dishes and fingerprints it to identify the ads and shows.
Wow. This is seriously awesome:

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CaT Presenter’s Semantic Technology Helps Find 20 Million Influencers Who Are Posting About TV

Imagine for a minute that you could visualize all the media in the world and everything being said about that media — in real time. You would get a picture of engagement with media and its impact, which words and images caused someone to do something — in this case, talk about it online.