Friday, May 28, 2004

More killer apps for camera phonesHigh Energy Magic Ltd. have some cool videos here of how connected camera phones can be used to interact with and even 'grab' interfaces. you can pick flight destinations from a map, control a volume knob, and select music tracks. the bit about 'throwing' interfaces to the phone is particularly interesting. this is how computing can become truly distributed. in the videos, more interactive displays which communicate with your phone via Bluetooth are used, but there is room for much simpler set-ups. a wall poster could carry enough information in a barcode to tell your phone how to display an interface of options, eg train times, holiday prices etc. the poster itself is static, but the interaction is dynamic, and the power for the interaction is a sum of the poster, the information stored in the barcode, the computing power of the phone, and the user's behaviour. yes, you'd need to download software that tells your phone how to interpret the barcode, but that's easy enough, and with enough marketing that kind of software could be pre-loaded.

this really is one to watch...


// posted by Peter @ 10:43 AM
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