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The Cuecat phenomena from Wired and Kooaba

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Wired Insider – Kooaba.

Ad from Wired. Download App, take camphone photo. See ad. Sooo cuecat.

Ad from Wired. Download App, take camphone photo. See ad. Sooo cuecat.

Written by Barbara K. Iverson

November 7th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

Posted in Augmented reality,See it my way

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McLuhan saw it coming…a 6th sense extension

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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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Written by Barbara K. Iverson

July 25th, 2009 at 9:43 am

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