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Old Aug 8, 2010, 07:54 AM   #1
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Smartphones to 'augment reality'
Tokyo - The "Terminator" had it, US fighter pilots use it and it's the next hot feature on Japanese smartphones - "augmented reality" which peppers the world around you with useful bits of information.

Imagine wearing high-tech glasses and having small, cartoon speech balloon-style tags pop up within your field of vision, overlaying real-world objects and buildings to describe what you're looking at.

That is essentially what Japan's two largest cellphone operators are about to offer their millions of customers, except they will use the cameras and screens of smartphones plus vast online databases.

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The only problem is i can imagine that there'll be thousands upon thousands... no, sod that.. millions of information bubbles at any 1 time if it's anything like i'm imagining lol.
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people will start walking around staring at their raised phones,
to be promptly run over by drivers
who were texting
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people will start walking around staring at their raised phones,
to be promptly run over by drivers
who were texting
Look at it as a high tech population control method.
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