Be a Walking Wikipedia With the Handheld Looking Glass Computer
There’s no better way to annoy your travel companions than to take something like this handheld-computer design wherever you go. Not only can you hold it up to buildings and get the address, history and architectural schematics (you know, for a heist), but it also supposedly hooks up with your personal organiser, a dictionary and Google—for that extra bit of information overload. Good thing that this camera/touchscreen display/GPS/internet 3G device is a design or we’d be forced to actually spend the money to buy one. [PetitInvention via Yanko Design]
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Actually, you don’t even need the frame. You could program this in an iPhone. It can already locate itself to access a database of nearby features. It’s got the camera and WiFi/EDGE to send the picture to the image recognition neural net at the server. It’s got the accelerometer to know which direction you’re pointing your phone in. You might need a little add-on stick for better GPS and direction finding. Perhaps. But after that it’s all down to the software/database you hold on the server.
Personally, I was imagining something better than just building recognition. What about pointing it at a tree and having its species recognized by its silhouette? Then, nearby nurseries that stock that species. Extend that idea to cars, other people’s phones/gadgets, other people (is that [insert appropriate celebrity]? Yes, it is), works of art, etcetera, etcetera.
With that kind of connectivity, I could be fifty times the insufferable bore I am now.