Augmented Identity

A new app makes it possible to identify people and learn about them just by pointing your phone.

An application that lets users point a smart phone at a stranger and immediately learn about them premiered last Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Developed by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a Swedish mobile software and design firm, the prototype software combines computer vision, cloud computing, facial recognition, social networking, and augmented reality.

Wired has me sold on the iPad

Unlike Sports Illustrated's poorly-presented e-magazine demo, Wired's looks like the real deal. People have been promising us interactive magazines ever since the advent of the CD-ROM, but now it looks like we're finally getting it: The combination of a useable tablet and Wired's intelligently-designed layout seems prepared to deliver a truly fantastic multimedia magazine experience.

Augmented (hyper)Reality

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.