Hmm, lets take this technology...
Showcased at CeBIT, the Otello search engine simply uses images as input; in other words, handset owners just snap a picture of anything -- a landmark, DVD case, unidentified flying object, etc. -- and Otello then "returns information relevant to the picture to the mobile phone."
...and let it mature for another five years, now combine it with a similarly refined and expanded version of this sort of technology...
Apparently consisting of a "a single-chip computer and a couple of infrared sensors," the system, dubbed the Kome Kami Switch (or Temple Switch), lets you perform basic tasks like skipping tracks on an iPod with the blink of an eye, and is supposedly fine-tuned enough to be able to distinguish natural blinking from a deliberate wink
...mount both into a refined, and less dorky looking, set of video display glasses
...and you get the ability to look at an object, blink, and have data about it streaming into your display glasses. Combine this with some data overlaid from google maps, widgets, RSS feeds, access to the computing cloud and natural language search...and we've got true mobile computing, true augmented reality, true intelligence enhancement. Throw on a microphone and a video camera and this thing would be a lifelogging device and memory aid as well. I first imagined such a system about 8 years ago and it felt a long ways away back then. Now it feels like it is coming within the next 5 years, perhaps more like 2 or 3 years. I can't wait to get my hands on this when its commercially available.
edit : About an hour after this post I came across this article describing a prototype "smart goggles" system being demonstrated. Interesting times we're headed for.
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