Posts Tagged ‘augmented reality’
Silhouette iMirror app: Taking vanity to new heights!
Choosing a pair of glasses that suit your face can be an arduous task. It is also a task that, more often than not, is not given the amount of time and patience we would like to devote to it through fear of looking vain and taking up too much of an optician’s time at a local Spec Savers. Although these days of buying a pair of glasses on a…
Post-Modern: Royal Mail’s intelligent stamps
In 1840 the first ever postage stamp appeared in the UK bearing the profile of Queen Victoria. Since this remarkable occasion, stamps have not massively changed or evolved. Usually associated with tradition, royalty, British heritage and ‘geeks’, stamps are the last things you would expect to involve cutting-edge technology. Although when Royal Mail announced recently they were due to launch the world’s first ‘intelligent’ stamp to “bring them firmly into…
Samsung announce Galaxy Portal with Layar
“Layar”, the Augmented Reality Browser”, boasts Samsung like we all know all about this intriguingly titled new browser already. When in reality most of us have never even heard of it, although that is perhaps a good sign in the cutthroat world of technology and the increasingly pressurized yearning for companies, particularly mobile phone companies, to be innovative and inspiring. In launching the Galaxy Portal, Samsung have leapt into the…
