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New ‘Batphone’ App Uses Acoustics to Determine Location

[The app takes in ambient noise to identify your location][link]. Lots of neat and or creepy implications.

[link]: http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/article_935.html “New ‘Batphone’ App Uses Acoustics to Determine Location: McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern”

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Manifesto of the Zagreb Augmented Reality Kolectiv

[Hard for me not to like something that contains the following sentence][link]:

>Bees produce honey, spiders weave webs, the birds of spring sing free jazz and humans invent new realities.

[link]: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/05/augmented-reality-manifesto-of-the-zagreb-augmented-reality-kolectiv/ “Augmented Reality: Manifesto of the Zagreb Augmented Reality Kolectiv | Beyond The Beyond”

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“At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry”

[Bruce Sterling’s keynote][link], given at the launch of [Layar’s Layer Reality Browser][layar], is fun, smart, and full of a genuine excitement from Bruce that I really enjoy.

[link]: http://www.vimeo.com/6189763?pg=embed&sec=6189763 “Video: Bruce Sterling’s Keynote – At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry on Vimeo”
[layar]: http://layar.com/ “Layar.com”