By Clark BoydThe World, WGBH BostonLaptops and smartphones allow easy access computing power, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to go one step further by turning the entire world into a computer.At this year’s Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Boston, the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab unveiled the latest prototype of SixthSense, a wearable, gesture-driven computing platform that can continually augment the physical world with digital infor
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You know that there are some companies out there who deal with sensitive info, which is why they ban smartphones that come with digital cameras from entering their premises. Well, what happens when the said rule prevents their executives from staying connected with the latest bunch of BlackBerrys? Why, pick up the revise BlackBerry Curve 8350i from Spring/Nextel, of course, as that model will come with the camera removed while retaining all the standard features in the original such as Wi-Fi co…
Interactive Digital Billboards [Trendhunter] In a sign of the times, Toshiba’s getting interactive with its advertising. The company recently introduced an electronic billboard in Tokyo which features games that passersby can play either via their cellphone or through YouTube. Smartphones, Touchscreens Dominate CTIA [TWICE] No surprises here – check out some of this week’s debuts, coming soon and longing for your touch. McDonald’s QR Codes Pull Up Nutritional Info on Camera Phones [Tr
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The Touch Cruise is one of those smartphones that has at least one great feature worth writing home about with the “Footprint”. This Footprint has nothing to do with carbon, for it is a GPS feature that allows the user to dock the phone in a car cradle and use it like an ordinary Auto Navigation System. This phone/GPS device also uses turn-by-turn navigation, and has another geo-tagging feature that enables the user to take “digital postcards” with a 3.2 megapixel camera. I don’t have any mor
Remember back when cellular phones didn’t have cameras? Now it is a requirement. Considering the low megapixel cameras that are often tacked on to high-priced smartphones, it is nice to see a cellular phone that invests a lot of time in the camera. In the case of the JingPeng E1181, it tried something new. This phone allows the user to completely detach the camera as well as its rechargeable battery and place it up to 30 feet away. Wireless video footage can then be transmitted live from the
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