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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 [...]

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.