“augmented reality,” where data from the network overlays your view of the real world
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Students make computer design 3-D reality - 4 views
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Mark Reford, who heads the school, and Michael Zeigler, the school's technology director and a teacher, said a new course marries the worlds of art and technology for middle school students, promotes higher-order thinking and gives kids insight into the future of manufacturing. 3D printers are not new but If you 've never heard of them it is a fun technology to investigate.
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If You're Not Seeing Data, You're Not Seeing | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views
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developers are creating augmented reality applications and games for a variety of smartphones
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embraced a version of the technology to enhance their products and advertising campaigns.
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Tom Caudell, a researcher at aircraft manufacturer Boeing, coined the term “augmented reality” in 1990.
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he wants to be able to point a phone at a city it’s completely unfamiliar with, download the surroundings and output information on the fly.
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Mattel is using the same type of 3-D imaging augmented reality in “i-Tag” action figures f
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isn’t truly useful in a static desktop environment, Höllerer said, because people’s day-to-day realities involve more than sitting around all day
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And that’s why smartphones, which include GPS hardware and cameras, are crucial to driving the evolution of augmented reality.
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Ogmento, a company that creates augmented reality products for games and marketing
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movie posters will trigger interactive experiences on an iPhone, such as a trailer or even a virtual treasure hunt to promote the film.
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The Layar browser (video above) looks at an environment through the phone’s camera, and the app displays houses for sale, popular restaurants and shops, and tourist attractions
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it’s not truly real-time: The app can’t analyze data it hasn’t downloaded ahead of time.
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You know more, you find more, or you see something you haven’t seen before.
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Nokia is currently testing an AR app called Point & Find, which involves pointing your camera phone at real-world objects and planting virtual information tags on them
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This can be a really cool feature for teachers if they have a closed-group option. If you are part of the large network, there is all sorts of things people might plant that you don't want to see or know about... Another thought, if there is a closed-group option, perhaps this will create a whole new way of drug trafficking and helping illegal organizations hide information from authorities.
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place (real) Skittles on the physical map and shoot them to set off (virtual) bombs
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open API to access live video from the phone’s camera
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live tweets of mobile Twitter users around your location.
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ARM Chips May Spread Into Everyday Items - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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This is the so-called Internet of Things, when all sorts of everyday objects will have tiny chips placed inside them and gain the ability to process information and talk to the Web.
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ARM chips, by contrast, are made by a handful of contract chip manufacturers and cost 65 cents to $20 each.
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ARM executives agree that the future is with the billions of coming things — cars, refrigerators, TVs, clothes, buildings — that will have full-blown chips or at least Web-ready sensors inside them. In many cases, they say, these things will need the lowest-power chips possible because they will be out in the world and away from a plug. Energy has replaced horsepower as the prime concern, and it is here, ARM executives said, that the company’s skills will really shine.
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I especially love the last quote of this interesting article: "... Now, it's all about penetrating these weird markets that we can't even fully fathom yet." Maybe the ARM chip will be behind a disruptive innovation - it's fun to think about the possibilities
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We have a reading on "ubiquitous computing" later in the semester that gets into these fascinating issues and how they might affect education.
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