‘Sixth Sense’ Wearable Computers

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If you’ve not seen it already check out a TED talk by Pattie Maes from MIT. The device is essentially a wearable projector and computer that allows people to interact with their external environment by projecting related information about things they are looking at onto the thing they’re looking at. For example, if you pick up a book in a store it could project reader comments or the book website onto the actual book. Equally it could display information about product provenance onto the product in a supermarket. It could even be used to project a watch onto your hand or turn your hand into a fully functioning calculator.

A clickable link appears in the comments below.

Dylan Thomas

In the National Library of Wales there is a self-portrait by the writer Dylan Thomas aged, I’d guess, about eight. The self-portrait is nothing special but above it the young Thomas has written the following:

“I am young but I can learn.”

How do you compete with that?

The Future of Newspapers (seen from 1981)

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This is priceless – and a reminder of how even the best predictions can go slightly off the rails. The prediction that newspapers will be read mostly on computers is obviously on the money, but it’s things like likely cost and functionality that go out of the window.

This is from YouTube via the New York Times/Opinionator and TechCrunch. Full link in comments.