http://www.mobilality.com/

An interesting company mobility has a cool idea around tagging physical places. A small business can input what their “tag” is and when people are around the business, they can text the tag to get information about that business.

What would make this really cool is if customers could tag restaurants. At least then the tag would have a higher possibility of aligning with the natural language of the customers. But what do I know.

“High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) is the name coined by Microsoft for its proprietary technology of encoding data in a 2D “barcode” using clusters of colored triangles instead of the square pixels traditionally associated with 2D barcodes.^[1] Data density is increased by using a palette of 4 or 8 colors for the triangles, although HCCB also permits the use of black and white when necessary. It has been licensed by the ISAN International Agency for use in its International Standard Audiovisual Number standard,^[2] and serves as the basis for the Microsoft Tag mobile tagging application .” – Wikipedia

Microsoft is actually doing something quite interesting and quite disturptive

http://tag.microsoft.com/consumer/index.aspx

This is a great website. http://maplight.org/

I think that it is fascinating to see the correlation between dollars and politics. I can’t help but be reminded of the saying “do not bite the hand that feeds”. If anyone things that campaign contributions do not equate to votes, don’t kid yourself. Check out this site and figure out who takes contributions as bribes and who doesn’t. Technology does a great job at bringing up interesting pieces of data.

Light Blue Optics is an awesome company I recently came across.

They do really cool things with a projection technology called Holographic Laser Projection – or HLP™. They have utilized this technology to project information into the driving experience.

http://lightblueoptics.com/products/light-speed/

This technology, combined with infrared technology, has also made its way into interactive projective interfaces. I think this is great because it opens up new ways and places where interfaces can be utilized

This type of portable interface technology is really quite cool, who knows how disruptive this technology will become. I am excited to see where this goes.