Flying Fun For Your iPhone

The Parrot A.R. Drone is part toy, part video game, part iPhone app.

Did you ever have imaginary dogfights with model airplanes in your bedroom as a kid? Just in time for your second childhood, a company called Parrot is nearly ready to release a peripheral for your smart phone ever to help you recapture dreams of indoor aerial combat.

Parrot's A.R. Drone is a computer-stabilized "quadricopter"—a four-fanned flying air vehicle that can be flown indoors or out.  And it's controlled over WiFi by an iPhone or iPod Touch.  Just that would be enough to make it the hottest executive toy ever.

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Better Living Through Barcodes

The idea of linking the real world with the Web gets a fresh start thanks to software for mobile phones.

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Barcodes are everywhere, it seems. They help retailers keep inventory of the products we buy, and track the packages we ship. And now they could help you find a better deal, find that bin you stored your beach clothes in, or even help you avoid catching the flu.

I've written about how mobile applications are changing retail by arming cell phone users with real-time information about products and prices while they shop. But one application is taking barcodes even further. 

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A Smartphone that Sees For You

Software from LookTel on a Windows-based smartphone uses "augmented reality" to help the vision-impaired and elderly

Source: LookTel

This video shows some of the ways the  LookTel application can help people with visual and other handicaps.

A new set of software that works with relatively inexpensive smart phones could help visually disabled people and the elderly. Using a technology called "augmented reality", the software can help people by recognizing text, objects and places.

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Flying Fun For Your iPhone

The Parrot A.R. Drone is part toy, part video game, part iPhone app.

Did you ever have imaginary dogfights with model airplanes in your bedroom as a kid? Just in time for your second childhood, a company called Parrot is nearly ready to release a peripheral for your smart phone ever to help you recapture dreams of indoor aerial combat.

Parrot's A.R. Drone is a computer-stabilized "quadricopter"—a four-fanned flying air vehicle that can be flown indoors or out.  And it's controlled over WiFi by an iPhone or iPod Touch.  Just that would be enough to make it the hottest executive toy ever.

Read More

Better Living Through Barcodes

The idea of linking the real world with the Web gets a fresh start thanks to software for mobile phones.

Source: Getty Images

Barcodes are everywhere, it seems. They help retailers keep inventory of the products we buy, and track the packages we ship. And now they could help you find a better deal, find that bin you stored your beach clothes in, or even help you avoid catching the flu.

I've written about how mobile applications are changing retail by arming cell phone users with real-time information about products and prices while they shop. But one application is taking barcodes even further. 

Read More

A Smartphone that Sees For You

Software from LookTel on a Windows-based smartphone uses "augmented reality" to help the vision-impaired and elderly

Source: LookTel

This video shows some of the ways the  LookTel application can help people with visual and other handicaps.

A new set of software that works with relatively inexpensive smart phones could help visually disabled people and the elderly. Using a technology called "augmented reality", the software can help people by recognizing text, objects and places.

Read More

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