And now, this project is demonstrating a working prototype of a very early augmented reality system, using the Google Android platform....
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Technology and the Future
Jul 7, 2008
Mar 18, 2008
Where smartphones are headed....
For the near-term future, various sorts of display glasses will be how augmented reality and virtual reality are delivered, with smart phones as the computing platform. This is close, so close I can taste it. A pair of led/oled display glasses, that look close enough to regular sunglasses to avoid the nerd factor, are probably two years away from the mass market. That is when a lot of cool stuff will come to bear. Augmented reality, with different overlays available where different sorts of data are overlaid over your normal vision. Widgets and RSS feeds available any time, accessible via voice command or a flick of a finger on your phone's touch screen and visible as a translucent box in your vision. Reality tagging, life blogging, smart alerts, always-on GPS, real time instructional guides, tours, etc, its all coming and soon. In fact, the iphone and other advanced smart phones as they exist right now could deliver virtually all of this, its just waiting for the next firmware patch that will allow third party software development on the platform and for the eyeglass displays themselves to deliver all this via hud.
Smart phones are poised about where PC's were in 1980, right at the beginning of an explosive couple of decades of growth and innovation.
Smart phones are poised about where PC's were in 1980, right at the beginning of an explosive couple of decades of growth and innovation.
Mar 17, 2008
Sub-vocal communications, computer interaction...
In this video, a prototype voiceless communication system is demonstrated...
Even more exciting than the obvious uses for this technology in voiceless communication, is the implications the demonstrator mentions regarding how this could enhance augmented reality systems. You sub-vocalize a question or key word search phrase and get data back from the Internet. The power of this for enhancing intelligence is stunning.
Imagine this scenario. The year is 2018 and you are sitting in one of those mind- numbingly boring meetings. The data overlays in your eyeglass displays are showing reports and graphs prepared by the presenter as well as personal and business information about each of the attendees. Suddenly, an idea occurs to you. You spend a few seconds sub-vocalizing commands to your smart phone(5th gen iphone?, 3rd gen android platform?) to search for a series of documents and related blog postings, while also chatting voicelessly with colleagues in a different department to bounce your idea off them. By the time you open your mouth 30 seconds later to voice your brilliant idea you have done the background research and networking that might have taken 30 minutes(after the meeting) to do a decade earlier. This is just one small example of the type of Intelligence Enhancement we're talking about here.
Even more exciting than the obvious uses for this technology in voiceless communication, is the implications the demonstrator mentions regarding how this could enhance augmented reality systems. You sub-vocalize a question or key word search phrase and get data back from the Internet. The power of this for enhancing intelligence is stunning.
Imagine this scenario. The year is 2018 and you are sitting in one of those mind- numbingly boring meetings. The data overlays in your eyeglass displays are showing reports and graphs prepared by the presenter as well as personal and business information about each of the attendees. Suddenly, an idea occurs to you. You spend a few seconds sub-vocalizing commands to your smart phone(5th gen iphone?, 3rd gen android platform?) to search for a series of documents and related blog postings, while also chatting voicelessly with colleagues in a different department to bounce your idea off them. By the time you open your mouth 30 seconds later to voice your brilliant idea you have done the background research and networking that might have taken 30 minutes(after the meeting) to do a decade earlier. This is just one small example of the type of Intelligence Enhancement we're talking about here.
Mar 11, 2008
Towards nanobots...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7288426.stm
This looks like the first big step towards moving from nanoparticles to true nanobots.
"A tiny chemical "brain" which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines has been invented.
This looks like the first big step towards moving from nanoparticles to true nanobots.
"A tiny chemical "brain" which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines has been invented.
The molecular device - just two billionths of a metre across - was able to control eight of the microscopic machines simultaneously in a test."
"The machine is made from 17 molecules of the chemical duroquinone. Each one is known as a "logic device".
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