Jani PATOKALLIO wrote:
> Douglass Turner wrote:
> > - You pick up a Pokeman toy and click your mobile at it. You receive a
> > greeting. Or your receive a few complimentary graphics. More goodness when
> > your purchase the toy. Same for comic books or video tapes, CDs, etc.
>
> Yes, I understood this much, but *how are you going to get this to work*?
> I outlined two approaches: either you embed everything in sight with
> little electronic "I'm an orange" tags, viz. MIT's Squirt project (*),
..or you hit Ctrl-S by accident and stupid Netscape sends the mail too early,
grumble. The other possibility is solving several hard AI problems involving
recognition of random objects from random angles in random lighting conditions.
* http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/mithril/photos.html
> > Get the idea. Use the physical world as affordance and also for crucial
> > contextual cues, rather then having to fabricate it from "thin air" via
> > PC/PDA/mobile.
Oh, I'm sure it would be lovely... if it worked.
Cheers,
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Jani PATOKALLIO / jpatokal@iki.fi / +81 90 7722 3557
Sanpo Laboratory, Mechano-Informatics Dept., University of Tokyo
ヤニ・パトカリオ / jani@sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp / 090 7722 3557
東京大学、工学系研究科、機械情報工学科、算法設計研究室
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Received on Fri Nov 17 04:52:28 2000