Weekly Mashup 24

Life Transforming Wearables

The potential behind wearable technology extends further than fashionable accessories... Wearables also hold a massive potential to assist and improve the lives of disabled people. AR can be used to assist the visually impaired thorough, computer-assisted, vision devices that interpret nearby visual inputs, like letters and faces.

Surgery gets an AR face lift

‘The future of medicine’ is here with Dr. Homero Rivas (Stanford physician) using AR via Google Glass to improve the accuracy of surgery. Dr Rivas states that this ground-breaking technology means that ‘you don’t have to go in blind anymore’.

Surgeons use AR to assist with surgery for the first time.

Amazon Beats Barcode

Amazon.com has just added a new IR capability to its shopping app that could dramatically change online purchasing from smartphones. The tool is appropriately called ‘Flow’ and seamlessly allows shoppers to identify and purchase products with their camera-equipped phone.

Unforgettable SXSW 2014

SXSW 2014 was described as quite possibly the event of the year for techies and entrepreneurs. Even if you couldn’t make it across the Atlantic to Austin not to worry as here is a summary of the key SXSW moments from Joy Rides to App hoaxes.

First Things First

Nearly 500 designers, programmers, and creative technologists have signed their names to a fiery ‘First things First’ manifesto, which was created last month to provoke a re-examination of digital workers and their contributions to society. This plea toward a greater sense of ethics and social responsibility has come out of frustrations that the tech industry is steering too much toward ‘surveillance and frivolity’.

BLIPPAR IN THE NEWS

What's under your drink?

'Think Digitally' gives a toast to our blipp-riddled coasters that we placed around bars at SXSW. They give a full run down of the coaster’s ‘miscellaneous content’ that gets bought to life – from rockets, to pumping equalizers and bubbling icons. Get active and blipp this article to check it out for yourself!

The Future is Frictionless

‘Frictionless payments could be one answer to mCommerce conversion rates' says David Murphey after looking at Blippar and Barclays new payment app, Pingit. Read more about this here.

CNBC Squawk Breakthrough Interview

Our CEO, Ambarish Mitra, gives a not-to-be-missed insight on all things Blippar and where we stand in both the wearable and AR market. Watch the interview here and check this space for a new blog post with more interviews with our CEO.

Blippar's CEO Ambarish Mitra appears on CNBC Squawk Breakthrough