Augmented Reality is where you take a camera and overlay digital images on the picture. These pictures are then anchored to certain items, so when you’re looking at an object, you can see the digital addition, but if you move the camera, the digital addition stays with the object.
I’ve raised this issue a few times before:
Park attendants being told to question people in parks (especially men) if they have no children
or men in the US refusing to get near children in need due their being afraid of being branded a child molestor whilst in the UK everyone is banned from coming into contact with children without a government permit.
Now the Times asks whether maybe this hasn’t gone a bit far, with especially men refusing to volunteer to do anything having to do with children due to the suspicion and bureaucracy involved.
Are we too afraid of touch? – Times Online
This thing is USB powered and fed, so you don’t need to add a graphics card. It runs at 800×600, so it has a good pixel density for a screen that size.
Wide Email
Lettera
Sideways
Touchtype
Compose
If you’re jailbroken you can type SMS messages in landscape mode using biteSMS or iRealSMS from Cydia.
In the Netherlands, they’ll be starting a system like this in 2009. Fortunately you can opt out here
If you live in NL, then you might want to remove yourself from the Vecozo database, which lists centralizes all insurance data on people in NL. There is no direct way to remove yourself from this, but you can try the contact page
