Welcome to your Augmented Reality

Remember those Sc-Fi movies you used to reckon? The cool guy always had the cool stuff and the cool chicks, everything else was just beating around the bush. Probably a night or two of fancy dreams, and then you're back. What you're about to read is straight from your fantasies, right before your eyes. *drum roll*

Scientists and engineers gathered at Augmented Human International Conference, Megeve have gone cutting edge. They're working to pump your reality with instant data from the internet. Think about this: you stand somewhere lost in a foreign skyline, when someone whispers the phone number of a swish restaurant right at the top floor of the skyscraper you're gazing at. Or even, you close your eyes to know everything you could about the bridge or monument you were looking at just 2 seconds ago. Or just think of just seeing a phone number to have it keyed in your contacts without you doing anything else. Or even a foreign language translated live as it happens. Yep, this is cutting edge.

It works on eye-tracking: your smartphone sees what you see, and then sends it to a remotely accessed computer. The computer runs through the web database and relays information back. This also includes an integrated global positioning system hooked right up with your eyes and ears, so you never miss that turn. The one thing I predict: Google with services like Earth, Maps, Translate, Latitude, Picasa, Blogger, blah and blah and blah and blah, is about to turn into a lot more. And I have a good hunch on the iPhone living a part of our life.

Here's a little peek into the First AH Conference:

Thanks for reading, this is Nasim.

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