The media context slowly matures: a media world in which every individual can send the highest quality text, audio or video. A media world which evolves into a virtual world, a real, made-up or mixed world experienced from a distance. Part I of the book describes the maturing of the media context in detail. Below you’ll read about the small steps in the evolution we already see today.
Fleshbot discovered that Jess of UndressJess just started recording her Camgirl videos in 3D, allowing her viewers to get the sense that she's actually sticking out of their monitors a slightly bit. Using a fancy little Minoru webcam, she's started recording some of her videos.
Google Voice, is an alternative call apllication to run on smart phones or other devices. Google Voice is now about to hit iPhones by way of an app. This app for the iPhone has immediately access to your contacts.
Here is how it works: you don't press you regular 'Phone' application, but you select your Google Voice button. You just dial a number or select it from your contacts, as you would do in your regular phone application. The App diales out to Google and you' be a called back to connect both sides and you press the Green button. In this way, you do not only skip the standard fees charged to you by your operator, it will also allow you to maintain your calls from any other smartphone or devices. It actually disconnects your telephone number from your device. Additionally, you can also SMS people the same way.
The DaVince Si Surgical system is world’s only robotic surgical system with 3D HD vision. It has two separate HD optical channels that merge for highly accurate depth perception and a lightweight camera head features buttons for focus control, automated scope setup and illuminator control directly form the camera head.
This simply shows us the future of virtual worlds in our living room: we won’t be able to understand what the real world impact is of our behaviour in the virtual world. That will be a challenge for the next decade.
The French magazine Amusement n°4 is equipped with an RFID tag connecting it to the web and access additional exclusive content online. How does it work? An RFID tag is fixed in the middle of page 2 of the magazine. As soon as the reader touches the magazine's tag to the RFID Mir:ror scanner (see video), which trigger certain actions or have certain digital applications appear.
Tanita's BC-1000 Body Composition Monitor is a sophisticated scale, collecting measurements on muscle mass, overall physique, daily caloric intake, metabolic age, bone mass and visceral fat. From there, the unit can either send those details wireless to your watch, or it can beam them to any PC. The device will be shipped for $279.99 with a USB stick or $399.99 with an FR60 watch.
The Ondus Digitecture by Grohe is a slim, wall-mounted panel that adds a futuristic dimension to your bathroom. The newest addition to the award-winning Grohe Ondus Digital Faucet Collection, the Digitecture, includes temperature control, touchpad operation, an attractive faucet, and holders for soap and cups, all in one place.
In the next step our taps will be the media panels. We’ll instruct them for the experience we want and they’ll adjust not only the water and the soap, but also the light, the odor, the music, and match the bubbles to our mood, as this is measured too. The interesting thing comes when we can also visit a hotel bath in a foreign country and our health coaching brand recognizes us and continues our bathing experience in a total different atmosphere. It never seems to stop…
China web 2.0: Baidu, the large Chinese competitor of Google, has launched its Alading platform, which is to track the dark web. There’s lots of data on the web, which is not in form of web page, mainly those dynamic content. Users usually get those content by submitting a form query. Search engine sometimes can index dynamic links to retrieve some data, but there’s no way to fully understand them.
Here’s where Alading platform comes into place. If you have some definite data, which is always up to date and publicly accessible, you can submit it to Alading.
ReadyPing, a new mobile service is allowing customers in restaurants to be notified via text message when their table is ready. Restaurant hosts must enter a customer's name, number of guests and a contact mobile number. When the table is available, the host just clicks a button and a "ping" is sent to that customer.
Just hold the special 3D Live card in front of a webcam and watch a three-dimensional avatar spring to life -- rotate the card and the figure rotates in full perspective. The real interesting things is that the technology allows collectors to drop the player into simple pitching, batting and catching games using the computer keyboard. It includes sound, video expected. Series 1 cards will cost $2 for a 12-pack. Video is mandatory!
LG Korea has announced two new LCDs with Bluetooth support, enabling you connect a Bluetooth headphone to your TV, mobile phone, or PC for direct streaming of videos and photos.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have developed the iPoint 3D, a technology that enables us to interact with a 3D display via simple gestures -- all without touching the panel and without 3D glasses. The heart of iPoint 3D is a recognition device, not much larger than a keyboard, that can be suspended from the ceiling above the user or integrated in a coffee table. Its two built-in cameras detect hands and fingers in real time and transmit the information to a computer.
Hyundai en Kia will standardly equip several US models with a Parrot Bluetooth carkit. It'll be integrated into the dashboard, so it'll be without loose screens and buttons. It's be completely voice-controlled. http://www.mobilecowboys.nl/gadgets/9203
Technology is disappearing, becoming completely invisible. Currently it’s the software in the car that recognizes our voice. Later the car will be permanently connected to the internet and we’ll choose brands, social coaching brands, that travel with us forever, that know our friends exactly and where calling a name is enough to call them. Even if you’re in someone else’s car and aren’t carrying a phone or anything. This is again a step in that direction.
Cyber figure Alice is the world's first Augmented Reality character in a consumer's product. With software, various attributes and a webcam she appears on screen. She crawls from the different markers (printed on the six sides of a cube), but also recognizes images on the iPhone. Then you can interact with Alice. She has a personality, responds when you touch her and is happy when you give her gifts. She even changes or undresses if you want it. The whole game is for sale for $150. Below the video with the iPhone demo.
Everything will respond to everything. Just like the webcam responds to the iPhone, the iPhone can react to the webcam image, or the tv, or the radio, or the people in the room, but it’ll really be fun when everything reacts to everything. That’s just a matter of time.
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