tagged: web2con
Physical hyperlinks - semacode in two dimensional barcodes. QR code’s that arbitrary text can be encoded into an image. Devices that read them, devices that make them. When you can make this work in a closed loop, you create physical hyperlinks (clicking on the real world). It extends the presence of the Internet into devices that are not electric.
This — of course — is huge in Japan already.
There were some NYU students who did this as an art project (tagging the real world).
Mediascapes
Digital convergence with physical landscapes. The concept is, making a physical space annotated with digital content through use of devices that have locative awareness.
Augmented reality, creating a mediascape. Placecasting.
Misso
Digital table that leverages a “table” metaphor for haptic action. Pretty cool idea, and I think something that will become more ubiquitous when screen prices come down. The table model is pretty insane in that it kind of creates a nice model for interacting with visualizations of data.
I’d buy it. It’d be great for our future children.
My concerns about Placecasting
There has been work done about it before, by Blast Theory and Marko Peljhan. They dealt with locative media and spatial awareness from a game and political standpoint. My concern over HP’s use of it is that I don’t know what standpoint they are approaching it from.
If they are agnostic to use, that is a concern. If they aren’t, that is a concern as well. I wonder what their position is on using this technology either as a panoptic method of control or a method of subjugation of government hegemony? What is their commitment to using technology that could be potentially very dangerous in the wrong hands in the right manner? Will they put this in the right hands? Or will money win out?
When people play with disruptive technology that has a very real chance of being used in a very bad manner, I hope they do it responsibly.
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