The panel:
Rob Gonda
www.robgonda.com
Juan Morales
http://blog.thedigitalstew.com
Ryan Stewart
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com
Interesting speakers today on the future of mobile technology. Statistics show that SmartPhones are definitely going to be increasing.
There are 3X the number of mobile phone subscribers (3.3 billion) than those just using the internet on a PC.
In Asia and Europe, they are much more advanced on using their mobile phones. You can buy groceries, clothes... many things all by just scanning your phone.
While there was nothing completely groundbreaking at this discussion. The most curious points were actually having phones with much better recognition software.
So, let's say I can take a photo of pretty much anything, a phone can recognize it and then provide more information. This is happening with QR codes, but gurus predict we can go beyond that and having our phones recognize organic objects. Like take a photo of an orange, and find out where it was grown, or if it really was grown organically.
There was also much around the idea of having phones recognize audio patterns embedded in songs or movies. Let's say within a movie or a song, they embed a frequency that is much too high for us to hear, but the phone can "hear" it. Once the phone can pick it up, then you can get more information. What if?? (my favorite thing to say!) What if you are seeing a movie, and you want to know who sings a certain song, you hold your phone up in the theater and voila! You can then get that information.
Last point here.
Augmented Reality. Really dumb name, but it's actually cool. Right now it's used in gaming or creating a digital overlay that can be viewed through your mobile device. Imagine playing table tennis on a table that is just through your phones. Each mobile phone is the paddle. So, it's kind of like Wii and if you have a plain surface, then you can see the ball/net/out-of-bounds lines all through your phone. Get ready to game anywhere.
Here's a game that's coming out for iPhone called "Kweekies"... you'll be able to have a virtual pet.
Here's another link that shows augmented reality by GE:
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