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Web Discoveries for October 20th

These are my del.icio.us links for October 20th Eigenharp Alpha – A new kind of instrument for the future of expressive electronic music – research for an upcoming piece. Wearable Technology, the next User Experience Frontier | UXbyDesign – Some brilliant real-world applications of wearable computers, that could drive us further into the age of […]

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Summary So Far

In summary, Mobile AR has many paths leading to it. It is this convergence of various paths that makes a true historical appraisal of this technology difficult to achieve. However, I have highlighted facets of its contributing technologies that assist in the developing picture of the implications that Mobile AR has in store. A hybridisation […]

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Mobile Telephone

The Internet and the mobile phone are two mighty forces that have bent contemporary culture and remade it in their form. They offer immediacy, connectivity, and social interaction of a wholly different kind. These are technologies that have brought profound changes to the ways academia consider technoscience and digital communication. Their relationship was of interest […]

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Microsoft’s Vision for the Future

Microsoft have released a new video suggesting they seek to reposition themselves over the next decade. I think they are on to something: Their vision for the future is evidently very ambitious, but I believe that if anyone can pull this off, it’s them. Microsoft’s approach has always been to create user experiences that are […]

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Introducing… Ubiquity

Very exciting semantic technology for Firefox, that susses out what you are trying to do, and does it for you!

The below video, though highly stylised, is a great indication of our next steps towards Web 3.0, and onwards towards ubiquitous computing in the academic sense, that of interrelating processor-equipped devices/clothing/pens/kitchens etc that share and translate information to improve or simplify our lives.

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