If you’re not following this one (do keep up!) the latest buzz among people with funny-shaped heads is Augmented Reality. This is where you use a technology application to tell you more about the locality you are in than your eyes can work out. There are, of course, opportunities for local authorities to ensure that more people know more things about their localities.
Charlie Brooker has an entertaining piece on it here today:
“By 2013, it’ll be just another customisable application you can download to your iBlinkers for 49p, alongside one that turns your friends into supermodels and your enemies into dormice.”
More on this – especially what it means for adding data about the people you meet – later perhaps?
[...] also has uses beyond entertainment. We've seen a bit of that already with examples such as this one to help you find the nearest tube station in [...]