A week or so ago I blogged about how awesome intelligent-object recognition apps for the iphone are and their potential to influence consumer behavior.  Here’s a BBC article about Bokodes.  New, more sophisticated barcodes that just might change how we interact with objects in our world in a big way.  Still no mention of using [...]

I had a feeling this was coming.  And I’m glad it’s sooner than later.  An app has been developed for the iPhone that allows it to recognize objects “based on visuals through the iPhone camera, a RFID reader or through GPS, and then fetches the data from related databases.” It’s currently being billed as a [...]

As the penetration of mobile technologies continues to grow, with an estimated 4 billion subscriptions world wide, Indians are rapidly adopting and incorporating such technologies into their lives.  A recent article in The New York Times, which was brought to my attention via Smart Mobs, describes how users from all levels of Indian society are [...]

Since I’ve started at Sun I’ve been thinking a lot about how to best apply my education in anthropology to the projects we’re working on. It’s early, but so far I’ve been exploring the different ways humans interface with technology with the hope of designing effective educational content. The process of settling in has been [...]

This isn’t going to be a very informative post, but I must say that I just heard about Android and am super excited. In December I upgraded to a BlackJack II so I’ve been trying to learn as much as possible about mobile computing. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to a non-data plan [...]