Everything and the Mobile Software Universe…

Found at Khronos.org



this is a big wow!
NVIDIA is joining the game: after all they know how to do clean “numerical” hardware, leaving RF to classical chipset vendors…and the phone part of a cellular is becoming more and more a feature like another. I may have some concerns about power consumption has historically it is not something Nvidia was used to care about

Read on Pink Tentacle: Hitachi develops RFID powder ::: Pink Tentacle : RFID chips are now 0.05 x 0.05 mm! so can be embedded anywhere…like in all sheet of paper you have on your office: it is where the magic is coming, simply asks the room what documents are presents…and it gives you a list! Possibilities are endless.

Again a great Physical World Connection or Hyperlinking.

Hitachi’s new RFID chips (pictured on right, next to a human hair) are 64 times smaller than their mu-chips (left)

After reading a product description of what Abaxia is doing with its MobileTag – What is a Tag ?. I dug a little and found a really great and fast moving technology.

Did you know that nearly everything in Japan is tagged with QR Codes – two dimensional Matrix codes – these days? Okay, I guess you don’t, but believe me, you have to know about these funny codes. ^_^…Whenever you see a QR Code just take your phone out of your pocket, point with it’s camera at the QR Code and let the QR Code reading software decrypt the QR Code. That means: The QR Code reading software turns your phone into a mobile scanner for QR-Codes. Cool, right?

Robert Peloschek aka Unic0der: Free QR Code Readers for your Cellphone

CHeck this Video fora realife example:

Many formats seem to compete today, Code 2D (in French) gives some examples:

MobileTag

Data Matrix

QR Code (The most deployed, especially in Japan)

Shot Code

SemaCode

Basically you have two kinds of storage: either the data is directly embeded in the matrix (like in QR Code or Digimatrix, few KiloBytes of data) or the code is “only” a redirection to an URL where the content is stored and can be read (MobileTag is working on that principle).

What really buzz me is the concept of “physical world hyperlink”, as described by the pondering primate :

Physical World Connection Companies
When a display was added to the first mobile phone, a new media was created. Since then, Internet connection and a camera have been added that have created a new way to interact with the physical world.

Soon speech recognition will allow an additional way to browse the physical world too.

Every physical object will have a physical world hyperlink

That means every physical object will allow connection to a designated website and the mobile phone with it’s physical world browser will be able to surf the “real world”, the physical one.

The Pondering Primate: Physical World Connection Companies

(This vision seems to be shared also over at barecodemobile)

This can be strongly related to augmented reality where the “web world” is augmenting the “real world”. Even microsoft is taking the bandwagon as described in the always good Mobile Learning
Really getting an address from an advertisement right into my cellphone by taking a snapshot, or storing an appointment for a movie or a special event by taking a photo of an ad seems really valuable to me: today even with my glorified Treo with its big keyboard, I’m reluctant to loose my time entering those snippet of information.

This sounds exciting! … and for now all the generators and readers seem to be free of charge, I only wish we have more of this tagging in Europe….

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Just for fun! I can’t believe this one was not done on purpose:

And the winner is…  Brazilian Institute for Oriental Studies Pros: Oh, just look at it. Cock mark: 100%

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