Rob Flickenger, an Alpha Geek in anyone’s book, used a tool out of science fiction at a recent Emerging Technology Conference. Flickenger used his laptop to watch a real-time display of the graphics and photos the wireless bloggers were actually interested it. Using EtherPEG, a free combination packet sniffer and graphics rendering tool, a montage of the graphics that are flying around a wireless network are displayed and combined on a screen in real-time. Here’s an example.
It turns out that weblogged events - or coffee shops - are broadcasting a (mostly) untapped illustrated stream of conscious.
Which begs the question; can where you’ve been and what you are doing now predict what you’ll do next? Imageware Systems does facial ID from a handheld. NEXUS card holders cross the Canadian border by flashing their card through a radio-transponder. The occupants’ identities are immediately flashed on a computer screen and the agent visually confirm their identities and lets the vehicle pass. OKI’s Iris Pass can “see” from a distance. Expect them everywhere you want to be.
MIT’s Oxygen Project put the technologies from “Minority Report” together. It utilizes pervasive, human-centered with speech and vision.
