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Smartphones Helping Magazines Become Interactive – NYTimes.com
“An application called ScanLife, widely available online as a free download, turns a phone into a bar-code reader. Versions exist for the iPhone and BlackBerry as well as Android-based handsets, and the app comes preloaded on many Sprint phones in the United States. ScanLife can also read many standard bar codes on many phones, so it can perform price comparisons, for example.” read the whole story at: Smartphones Helping Magazines Become Interactive – NYTimes.com.
Ha ha. Remember the Cuecat? It seems it was not the stupid thing some writers have claimed, but instead it was too far ahead of its time.
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The Cuecat phenomena from Wired and Kooaba
Ad from Wired. Download App, take camphone photo. See ad. Sooo cuecat.
Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Mobile Web & Augmented Reality
McLuhan saw it coming…a 6th sense extension
You can see the power of this as a next generation Internet interface, as it removes several manual steps from the process of receiving relevant, contextual information about something or someone. Watch the video!!
We’ve blogged a fair amount about sensors this year, because they connect the real world up to the Internet. The wearables system relies a lot on them, for example the caps on Pranav’s fingers. Add that to the many other points of connection to the Web and it’s a powerful system; for example the book has a barcode that, in combination with the wearable device, will pull down data from Amazon.com via the Web.
via The Wearable Internet Will Blow Mobile Phones Away.
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