Weekly Mashup 23
March 7, 2014
Weekly Mashup 23
Galaxy Glass presents a prototype AR keyboard on your hands
Robotic Predictions
‘2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers’. This exciting prediction comes from Ray Kurzweil an entrepreneur, futurologist and Google's current director of engineering, Kurzweil has excitingly predicted that in 15 years' time computers will be able to understand what we say, learn from experience, make jokes, tell stories and maybe even flirt.
Glass for your Ears
Wearable eye-tech get ready for some competition from wearable ear-tech as a new prototype of Glass for the ears has been created by Hiroshima City University. This new prototype could allow you to do things like fetch traffic information or get directions by turning your head or biting down.
Oreo Cookies in Digital Space
Oreo is taking on real-time marketing and has planned to impress those at SXSW with vending machines that use Twitter-styled trends to create Oreo cookies with a three-dimensional printing system.
What to Watch at SXSW
South by South West is back and ready to hit 2014 with a storm so here are some tips on what to look out for, from: cutting-edge wearable designs, the future of health technology and frontier developments in ecommerce all here.
Galaxy Glass
‘Samsung Galaxy Glass wants to turn your hands into an Augmented Reality keyboard’! The AR finger keyboard appeared in a patent filed by Samsung last August at The World Intellectual Property Organization which has just been made public.
BLIPPAR IN THE NEWS
Joke Turned Into Millions
Find out how a joke between friends turned into a business across continents... Our CTO and co-founder, Omar Tayeb, tells the narrative of the birth and growth of us at Blippar in this insightful interview.
The Platform for AR
Our CMO and co-founder, Jessica Butcher, gives an insightful talk into why Blippbuilder is the platform to make AR content accessible to all and how this could aid an explosion of blipping.
Wearable Future
Agencies and brands prepare for a wearable ad tech future. We at Blippar are also keeping up with the game with our latest development on Google Glass.
