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Augment Your Reality with Interactive Windows
Technology

Augment Your Reality with Interactive Windows

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Scott • Leave a comment

Imagine you’re on a long train ride.  Bored, you turn to the landscape rolling past the windows, and decide to dress it up a bit.  You conjure up some flocks of exotic birds to hang in the sky, and a few horses that appear to be running alongside.  Before you know it, you’ve arrived at … Continue reading →

Topic Guide: Smartphones
Technology / Topic Guides

Topic Guide: Smartphones

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Scott • 2 Comments

You know what smartphones are about.  They’re the shiny, techie status symbol of the decade; they Google bizarre factoids when you need them in conversation; and if you’re reading this column there’s a 78% chance you’re using one right now to order scallion pancakes or play “quiz” on a triple word score. But is that … Continue reading →

Spy on Yourself With This Tracking Bracelet
Future Bites

Spy on Yourself With This Tracking Bracelet

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Scott • 2 Comments

Wired is reporting the debut of a tracking bracelet called the Larklife.  It’s a simple wristband with an accelerometer that can tell when you’re sleeping, exercising or neither.  It comes with a connected iPhone app that allows you to add information about your meals, then crunches all the data for you and reports back.  This … Continue reading →

3D Scanning – Yeah, There’s An App For That
Future Bites

3D Scanning – Yeah, There’s An App For That

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Scott • Leave a comment

Here’s a tasty morsel of future news: The first 3-D scanning apps are making their way to an iPhone near you.  3-D modeling software has been around for years, but it’s generally been complicated, and expensive, enough that only professionals ever bothered.  Now that design firm Autodesk is making their “123D Catch” app available for … Continue reading →

Traffic Control?  There’s an App for That
Future Bites

Traffic Control? There’s an App for That

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Scott • 2 Comments

This is Future Bites, a clearinghouse for bite-sized morsels of future news.  Offered every Monday.  To get a mix of Future Bites and future-focused essays delivered to your inbox, click “subscribe” at the right. This week, I offer you the latest in navigation apps.  This one can not only route you around traffic jams, it … Continue reading →

Technology

Extra Reality, Coming to an Eyeball Near You

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Scott • 3 Comments

Don’t look now, but you’re surrounded by hidden messages.  Colorful arrows line the sidewalk, menus hover over the diner down the street, and a grand star map looms overhead – even when it’s the middle of the day and overcast.  They’re all written out in invisible digital ink, and you can see them all – … Continue reading →

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