Anyone thinking what I’m thinking?
DIY video projectors (or and commercial portable projectors)
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using a phone with Bluetooth, you can create a phonebook contact and write a message, eg. ‘Hello, you’ve been bluejacked’, in the ‘Name’ field. Then you can search for other phones with Bluetooth and send that phonebook contact to them. On their phone, a message will popup saying “‘Hello, you’ve been bluejacked’ has just been received by Bluetooth” or something along those lines. For most ‘victims’ they will have no idea as to how the message appeared on their phone. So, personalised messages like ‘I like your pink top’ and the startled expressions that result is where the fun really starts.
Will Location Blogging Take Off?
Although his customers are the operators who sell their services to consumers, WaveMarket’s founder and CEO Tasso Reoumeliotis believes his job is to enable users to create the content and the applications. My conversations with with Reomeliotis and product designer Julian Whitaker convinced me that their knowledge of social networks, reputation systems, blogging, buddy lists, privacy concerns, and user-generated content is more than superficial.
The Nokia 3220 has a “wave messaging feature” Abe calls “air graffiti.”
As a commentor on Smart Mobs pointed out, if you don’t want to wait for or spend money on this phone, you could always pick up a Sky-Writer
I’ve been thinking that wearable computing, ubicomp, and augmented reality won’t be very useful for existing computing tasks (designing, typing, book-keeping, data analysis, etc.) but will be useful in previously un-computerized jobs such as carpentry, bike messaging, and cooking. Wouldn’t it be useful for a carpenter’s goggles to calculate measurements and so forth while they worked? And wouldn’t it be nice for a cook to be able to see a recipe dangling in their field of vision instead of having to glance at a recipe? FedEx drivers or truckers would have the benefit of dash-based navigation systems, and existing GPS based handhelds would be adequate for foot-based delivery, but a bike messenger would have greater utility for a wearable navigation system.
For instance, here’s an activity that doesn’t usually involve computers: a wearable computing device for fisherpeople (via boing boing)
And by the way, here’s Microsoft’s new, ugly, always-on camera neckless:
I love the idea, but it’s even uglier than the MSN direct watch. Via 21f
Wave Market is a new location based tagging service (or “virtual graffiti” service, but I’m finding that term less and less apt). Not much info on the site, but it sounds like it will be available in the US.
From the Social Fiction blog February 11 (couldn’t find a permalink)
eski! consider this; when nationality is a psychogeographical quality this implies that nationality is a shattered all over the place. This opens up the possibility that your nationality is an array of PML data that descibe places where you feel at home, or are at least attracted to. Once you have established you nationality like this (which of course can change over time both because the place changes & because the things you are attracted to change) you can locate your homeland abroad by matching your PML nationality to the existing datasets. Nationality as geocaching!
For my reference, here’s a list of the various virtual graf systems that I’ve found:
1. Geonotes. Web site is down, and the program failed to connect to the server. This is/was a project based out of Stockholm, but it was the only international system that I’m aware of. It stored messages on wifi hubs, and if I remember correctly, had software out for win2k/XP, Linux, and some obscure PDA OS. I once left a note at Thee Aurafice. Info and screenshots.
2. Tag and Scan a new UK only system. Commercial.
3. Virtual Helsinki: Slashdot discussion
4. FLIRT, also in Helsinki, Financial Times article
5. Urban Tapestries London only, I think
6. Wave Market Global? (Howard Rheingold reviews it here)
Anyone know any others? Seems like there’s something in Tokyo I’m forgetting.
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