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World News Update (Simplified Indefinite Article Version with Commentary)
- A pigeon is faster than broadband. (Yep.)
- A bunch of promising films are to be shown in Toronto. (Michael Caine in an Urban Western? A big-screen biopic about Charles Darwin? Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner in a film together? Awesome.)
- A man tries to come off as a strong and capable leader on national television. (That man is Barak Obama.)
- A dead cockroach will freak other cockroaches out. (Would freak me out too.)
- A bunch of people don’t like the idea of giving this one guy the key to the city. (I personally don’t like it either.)
- A toymaker invents a game where you can buy any street in the world. (If I bought every street I’ve ever lived on I’d probably lose.)
- A new mirror is being designed by an internet and technology based company. (I want to look at myself in one.)
Thanks to my friend Dragos for this find:
Apparently the folks at Squidder are busy at work turning the world into Shadowrun 4. They’ve been playing with a number of augumented reality (the AR of the title) oriented devices like this one:
PaperTweet3d: Augmented Reality T-shirts from squidder on Vimeo.
Imagine being able to slap on a pair of AR sunglasses and walk down the street and read what everyone was doing, where they were going, etc. (Provided of course they were Tweeting or Facebooking their actions.) It’d certainly evolve the sport of people watching to a whole new level. Twitter would no longer be something you check in the dark solitude of your bedroom or while secretly craning your neck down to your iPhone during a buisness lunch, instead it would be a direct broadcast proudly worn by you for all the augumented world to see, a constantly changing novelty tee whose idiotic phrases are dictated solely by you.
(Side note: Perhaps if people are forced to face the visual reactions that their tweets then some standard of ettiquette will evolve.)
Now don’t get me wrong. I am enthusiastic about this. There are tons of other perks about this beyond Twitter:
- Looking at a box of food in the supermarket and having a screen pop up with a list of recipies that the item would be good with, or a wine pairing, or a comparative list of prices between brands.
- An AR museum experience with searchable databases of paintings and art histories. (Think of a museum plaque crossed with a Wikipedia article and you’re barely scratching the surface.)
- Chips on signposts telling you which way to turn for a certain address or what the next 3 intersections with a particular street are.
Of course this design is specifically for Twitter/Facebook feeds and the oppertunity to be presented with thousands of t-shirt encoded passive-aggressive internet messages about people being bored, depressed or pissed off at their ex is staggering. I crave the day when I can go out to the Old Port, see some dude who can barely stand tack away at his iPhone for a few seconds and then watch a tweet pop up on their shirt that says:
sherri!!!!!!! cum ot 2 4play!! I”MDRUNNNK!!!!!!!!
Cause that totally wont be obvious.
