The future is certainly now with this interesting new iphone app developed by Quest Visual.

In a mix of image recognition technology and augmented reality, the app, Word Lens, functions by having the user point their iphone camera at a foreign language sign and having it instantly translated in video by the app on their iphone.
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Here’s something incredibly fun for the Christmas season. Maker of last year’s ‘Chiristmas Lights Hero’, Ric Turner (former Disney ‘imagineer’ and special effects specialist) is back again this year, with a brand new game on his front porch.

This year, he has come up with ‘Snowball Blaster’.

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Sounds like something straight out of a science-fiction movie, but brace yourselves, it’s today’s reality.

This amazing new material is now being developed by the researchers in Arizona State. It is said to be self-diagnosing and self-healing, which means that it can detect the presence of damage and regenerate itself.

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In vein of my last article on augmented reality, here’s another technology on Augmented Reality being developed by some innovative Japanese University Students.

This time, the augmentation is not on the visual, but on your taste buds.

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As our technology advances, so it has mingled the virtual and the real world. The best example of this intermingling is known as augmented reality, in which real-world objects can be used to interact with the virtual world and vice versa.

Helping this along is depth cameras that allow you to carry out various tricks with the ability to detect real-world objects with quite the degree of accuracy.

Intel’s research lab in Seattle is now researching the techniques and usages for what they call the “Kinect style” depth cameras.

Among the research, they have developed the OASIS (Object Aware Situated Interaction System) project that combine the depth camera and a projector resulting in some very interesting augmented reality applications.

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