Point Inside – www.pointinside.com

This is a cool application that provides interactive maps for Airports, Malls, Convention Centers, ect. If you ever need to see where the restrooms are or the Entrances / Exits, this is the app for you.

I always love to see awesome augmented reality apps come out. Check out Layar (http://www.layar.com/)

It turns the visual world around you into actionable information.

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

I love randomly coming across ideas for mobile that push the boundaries.

http://swypeinc.com/

This company has crafted a method for typing that does not require ones finger to come off of the screen. All you have to do is touch the first letter of the word you want to spell then swipe over the other letters in the word and it uses predictive text technology to figure out what you are trying to type. It also allows for multiple words with one swipe.

I would be interested to see how accurate their technology is and how many times they get the correct words compared to the incorrect words.

http://www.firstelse.com/

I love the idea of a software on mobile devices adapted for one handed use. Do I think that it will make it safer to drive with? No. But I do think that it is a step in the right direction. Software and Design innovation many times comes from realizing the obvious. Observing many people using mobile devices with one hand naturally sparks the question, can the devices be adapted to better accommodate the use?

Slick mobile ideas make me happy