Pranav Mistry in a TED presentation talking about how we physically interaction with objects, physical world and each other. This 6^th sense technology is to replace the limited capability of current peripherals such as the mouse and keyboard and upgrade this to a more intuitive and natural method.

Pranav demonstrates his Gesture Interface Devises (GID).  My favourites were his augmented projector helmet! And the camera device demo when he walks around the city and the technology displays his augmented information such as reviews on books in a shop, live updates to information in newspapers such as weather or news through to way of showing information about people we meet.

I liked the way he summed it up “Humans we are not interested in computers – we are interested in answers and knowledge”

I personally like this type of “geeky” research as it makes technology work for us, rather than us having to sit in front of a computer interacting on its terms.

Check out the video for yourself.

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To add my own comment – first time I have seen this in the UK Google SERPs

Tags: Future, Technology

Another bit of fun. Not sure who created these videos but they are excellent.

Tags: Social Media, YouTube

Love this.  This does seem like a day here.  It would be funny if it wasnt so true.

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I have just been playing in the Google labs with a new kid on the block. There is a new product in test called City Tours.

There seems a move by all the major players away from a search engine returning list of resources. To engines that actually add-value to that experience. A move to providing answers.

As someone who works in travel and someone who believes in quality inspirational content, this could be a threat or equally a huge opportunity. Still not sure what my opinion is, other than it could be great. Once they sort out some decent answers.

Check it out for yourself >>

Tags: Beta, Google labs, Maps, Travel

I think the next time I need to explain my SEO strategy or how important accessibility is for a clean site, I may take this approach.

Tags: Code, Design, How-to, SEO, Usability, YouTube

As any business owner will know User Acceptance Testing is a nightmare and when tech have tight, non-moving deadlines you always end up in a situation where you have to go-live with Bugs.

Saw this today and it summed it up beautifully.

Thanks Dilbert.

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