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Brilliant idea, I’d buy it immediately.

It’s one of the best inventions I have ever seen.

It’s just… Well… Awesome!

Looks unbelievable. How can it recognize an image? The first thing that came to my mind is Microsoft’s Photosynth.

in my opinion. impossible… toooo complex..

I imagine that soon enough this sort of technology will be built into a pair of glasses or contact lenses - relieving us of the agony of having to hold that thing up all the time!

why not, all you need is a GPS + 2MP+ camera + 3g or 4g(WiMAX) Antenna+ CPU + Transparent Display + Mother Board + powerful battery + smart OS

Reminds me a bit of the sunglasses in William Gibson’s Virtual Light.

The sunglasses in that book, you could just look at a plant and the name of the genus and species would magically appear under it.

i like it! i want to buy it but i know it would be expansive. i’m poor.

Brilliant concept. It requires very intelligent integration of information, something that the semantic web (or web 3.0, if you will) projects are trying to achieve. So far the driving force behind these projects has been mainly the need for better search engines, but concepts like this really open your mind to the possibilities and hopefully will inspire innovation. The benefits of this, the uses of this… unlimited.

why does anybody care about a design that is technologically beyond what can be built today? I’m not being sarcastic, I’m actually curious. Put a white border on a piece of glass, and it’s a design? Hurry up and patent that, then in 20 years you can sue apple. It’ll be called the macbook crystal.

The point of concepts is to push the envelope so that new technologies can emerge. If you don’t like the idea of concepts, move to a third world country where your only thought for the day is survival.

that will never come true?

Don’t say never…. EVER

they said force fields and invisibility were only for sci-fi shows, yet DARPA is currently researching both

They once said the world was flat, and it wasnt

The fact is science and technology always catches up to the ideas… if we didnt have cool ideas we wouldn’t have things to strive for,

How would you like to bet that in say 100 years when we have actual space ships for distant travels they look somehat like the ones from startrek or stargate… why because even though their impossible now, the fact is the idea is their for the future.

This design is wicked, i’d love if eventually it could be made a real product can you imagine having that on a trip to europe or elsewhere.

I give it a modest 15-20 years before something like this goes commercial, given the current tech trend.

For all of you naysayers, just think back 100 years. If someone came up with the idea of a multi-touch device that plays music, plays movies, makes/receives phone calls, has a calendar, address book, telephone, can surf the “internet,” etc. - the iPhone - and went around showing people, they’d probably be saying the same thing you’re saying now. “Impossible … it’ll never happen.” If we all had that same mind-frame, we’d still be using sticks as utensils and living outdoors. That’s what thinking outside of the box is all about…

would be fun to carry around

Cool

We already have this online to a certain extent via cell phones. See snapnow.com (US/UK) and shalink.com (Japan).

We’ve been looking at aspects of ideas like this, though in the context of captioning photographs. We’re using GPS and compass to try to work out where a camera is looking. We have some details at the project web site

http://tripod.shef.ac.uk

Bill Gates demo’d a working prototype of this idea at CES this year, but this is a much nicer form factor. Bill’s unit came “straight from Microsoft Research” and looked it.

I love it! When can I have one. I work for GeoSmart in New Zealand. We are a mapping company with a wide range of gps and mapping solutions. We supply Fleet Management Systems and car navigation for brands such as Navman, TomTom, BMW, Siemens VDO etc. We supply Web Mapping API’s used on sites such as http://www.wises.co.nz and http://www.aamaps.co.nz and are owned by the NZ Automobile Association which has a membership of around 1.2 million people. If you develop this product, we would love to participate in spatial search support where it relates to New Zealand. Our API’s are also used in many other countries around the world, although currently only for Fleet Management.

We have technologies in development that could potentially support features such as building recognition.

This is actually already possible since some time! Or at least part of it. In the Augmented Reality (AR) field, there has been some research with merging real time captured images with geographical stored data!
veral aplication could be exactly to serve as interactive guidebooks (point it to the Eiffel tower and get its info, such as images, history, distance, etc.
The problem is that you have to have a GPS, access to a database, and a good system to merge real images (actually in AR the concept is to analise the image and relate it to something instead of using GPS) with a layer of information data from a local or web geographical repository (yes, I’m talking of a real computer with rendering hardware). Se ) You have to consider several dificulties:
* GPS hare not as accurate as this designers paint then (you can point the glass to Eiffel tower but the GPS would need to know were you were, your pointing direction, blocking buildings in between).
* regarding internet access, I have to admit that we are capable of accessing any information we desire (as long as we have the money. Go outside of your contry and start connecting you mobile/PDA , through roaming) to get information from the Web and let me know how much your provider charge you) And obviously it didn’t compare to this display.
* the last example is bad! You actually have to scan and text OCR it (understand the characters) before you can query google! were I to develop this tool i’de say it would be easier to place a virtual keyboard for the user to introduce the word itself!

Designers tend to design beautifully stuff and say “Now you figure out how to build it”. If you take the visual design of stuff and just put in the functional concepts, let me tell you that anyone can do your job (probably most of it was already done in Scy-Fi books/movies)
A good example was recently a designer that design lamp that could supply itself just by force of gravity for days (if I’m not mistaken). Later he had to acknowledge if design had flaws since he miscalculated the necessary needed weight require for the design to work

it is too nice to be true. smart OS will be the jerk coz it will have to be super fast accurate and smart, probably…………i’ll be the first one to buy it if such a successful product reached the market before the end of 2008…. let’s see and everything is possible

highly intelligent software, i think we’ll get there soon. but i don’t think a screen is the best carrier of that technology. obviously there will be a personal robot which detects your eyeball movement and also your emotion so it knows you have question about that building, and it will just speak to you.

I love this idea.
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Great, great concept!!! Please, can I post a reference of this post with pics in my blog?