The future of Augmented Reality

The Augmented Reality technology has come a long way over the last couple of years. Brands from around the world have been actively using it in their campaigns to engage their target audience. Still we are yet to see it play an everyday role in our life's.
A recent video released by Hidden Creative shows how cellphones or a digital devices can be used to scan ones surrounding and get live information on the spot. The video also demonstrates how augmented reality can overlay objects in a real-life space to help users with renovations by virtually rearranging furniture or configuring the colors virtually...
But before we even get to a future like this, companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft/Nokia, along with their developers, will need to standardize the Augmented Reality experience on their respective platforms. One master app that runs across all the platforms could be the start as right now the app stores are cluttered with a large number of Augmented Reality apps.
You have been Googled up…

An interesting video showing how much Google wants to be a part of our lives!
Bloom Box…the future of electricity is here!

Bloom Box is a new eco friendly electricity-generating device that takes fuel and air and turns it into power...it is a small power plant in a box which has promises to soon power our homes!
This new technology is already being tested by Google and eBay...here is the CBS 60 Minutes video telling you exactly what this box is all about...
Now translate text in photos

The Google Goggles uses Google’s machine translation technology and image recognition capabilities to create an additional layer of useful context. So if the user takes a photo from his Android device, the application will translate the text in the photo in a fraction of a second! Currently it only supports German-to-English translations.
I can't wait to the see the day when Google comes up with a realtime voice translation device. We will never need to learn another language.
Google Goggles

The iPhone has already had an app which allowed visual searches to be made for price and store details based on user photographed CD covers and books.
Now google has taken that to a whole new level. With the Google Goggles app (for Android phones only) you can take a photo, click a button and Google will analyze imagery and text in the photo for your search query.
Currently there are 1 billion images included in the index today. Here's a demo video of this new visual search...
Droid vs iPhone
Droid is Verizon's new google android phone...it's dubbed as the iPhone killer...

Verizon in their ad for the Droid attacked the iPhone...
What they forgot was that the iPhone fans are the ultimate loyalists...
Additionally it's rumored that we will soon see the Google branded gPhone...with the mobile handset competition heating up...I can hardly wait to see and know more about iPhone 4G...







