Lots of speculation that Google will come out with electronically enhanced glasses by year’s end. They will supposedly contain a camera (so they see what you see) and a heads-up projector (so they can modify what you see) Here are some of the more “interesting” (frightening!) scenarios that this would enable, like: Look through things [...]
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Take the iPhone, but replace the screen with a 40 inch HDTV screen and put it in your living room. What do you get? a TV a high-quality speakerphone bypassing the telcos a live window to grandma (“HDTV videoconferencing in your living room”) a stereo a movie rental kiosk a game console Now, next time [...]
@parislemon neatly summarized today’s news about H-P getting out of the PC business: HP To Apple: You Win. I hope he meant more than tablets, because the victory of the Apple model is much broader. Just a few days ago, Google caused a major earthquake with the announcement that it would acquire Motorola, one of [...]
Continue reading about The Fundamental Remaking of Several Industries
Interesting take and very consistent with my series of posts on how computing is moving all around us: I truly believe that the models of human-computer interaction (”HCI”) that all of us grew up with are going to change dramatically in the next 3, 5, 7, 10 years. … the iPad is such an important [...]
So far I’ve looked at devices with which we’ll interact with information in 2020. Now I’m changing gears to look at the backend. Fry’s is selling Terabyte hard drives for $69.99 this week. A Terabyte is, give or take, a billion pages of text, or a million books. An entire library. Or a month’s worth [...]
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