Google Goggles for art
Google Goggles—the camera-based smartphone app that’s akin to Shazam, but for images rather than songs—will now provide information for all paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection. “Visual...
View ArticleWorlds Collide with digital aisles at Korean subway stations
Home Plus, the Korean arm of supermarket super-giant Tesco, is enabling smartphone-equipped commuters to browse for grocery items while waiting for the subway. Sheets of photorealistic billboard paper...
View ArticleAnimated tattoos
Who says tattoos have to be static? The line between the online world and the physical world continues to fade, as we pointed out in Worlds Colliding, one of our 10 Trends for 2011. One of the most...
View ArticleConsumers make QR codes their own
QR codes as a marketing tool are popping up in more and more places, from the vegetable aisle of the grocery store to auto dealerships (Nissan plans to put QR code stickers on its 2012 vehicles,...
View ArticleSydney’s Luna Park lets visitors share their experiences in real time
Luna Park, a theme park in Sydney, recently announced “My Experience” a way for guests to integrate the real-world experience with their digital lives. Visitors who buy an Unlimited Rides Pass, which...
View ArticleThe new generation of AR apps
When we named Social Objects as one of our 100 Things to Watch in 2011, we cautioned brands that the experience of using augmented reality apps could become more engaging than the objects themselves....
View ArticleBlippar business cards
Technologies like augmented reality (AR) are driving a collision of the digital and physical worlds (one of our 10 Trends for 2011), with physical things opening doors to a world of digital...
View ArticleAttached to technology: wearable computers
In the not-so-distant future, we may very well be wearing computers. The blog 9 to 5 Google reports that the Google [x] Glasses project involves glasses with a built-in camera and a heads-up display...
View ArticleMonopoly, meet Foursquare
Estrela, one of Brazil’s biggest toy manufacturers and responsible for the Monopoly franchise in the country, has created a novel app for the game that integrates Monopoly with Foursquare. Anyone who...
View ArticleAugmented reality companions
A Kinect-like device combined with augmented reality goggles makes for a surreal virtual date, as demonstrated in a YouTube video posted this month by an unidentified engineer from Japan. After...
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