According to Pachube’s developers:
“Pachube is a little like YouTube, except that, rather than sharing videos, Pachube enables people to monitor and share real time environmental data from sensors that are connected to the internet. Pachube acts between environments, able both to capture input data (from remote sensors) and serve output data (to remote actuators).”
In other words, any kind of sensor you want (from CCTV to air quality monitors) can feed data to your smartphone and pop up one of those graphs. Want to avoid areas with lots of particulate matter in the air? Now you can see those invisible particles by waving your phone around. Or do you want to rent in an office in a building with a small carbon footprint? If the proper sensors are in place, Pachube lets you see the carbon footprint of buildings you enter.
Here’s more info on augmented reality, including a program which collects environmental data from many sources (including networked furniture?!?) and presents it to you.
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Still waiting for my neural nanonics . . .
http://nightsdawn.wikia.com/wiki/Neural_nanonics
now, if it would only find the bars with the hottest and loosest babes, they would sell gazillions!
Is it always that hazy there? You can hardly see anything?
I like this application. For instance as a language translation tool. ie Point to a sign in a foreign language and have it display an English translation!
Sweet.
Looks like a solution looking for a question. It might make sense in national parks for points of interest, but not much else.
Sarah Connor is soooo screwed.
Until I get my Shadowrun style goggles, I am un-impressed.
No one wants networked furniture
cuz if your couch and bed started leaking logs, it could be a bit embarrassing…
Will it tell you how big an idiot you are if you point the camera back at yourself?
Phillip! Where can I get that Sweater? My My.
Well there goes my business idea out the window…
If, instead of a two or three sentence blurb, it would direct me to the page in the Lonely Planet, that would be nice. Cripes! If you’re looking at a castle, chances are you passed a dozen signs telling you it’s such and such castle. Probably told you not to swim in the moat, too!
2nd Video, the first building he looks at is most famous for being in ‘The Sound of Music’. Didn’t tell him that on his phone though did it. What a scam.
Seems like something the military and the cops could use.
No stupid that’s the wrong house! The one we got a warrant for/need to blow up is over there!
Could prevent all sorts of problems.
When I am using GPS on road trips I allways thought it would be a great Idea if something like “Pachube” could act as a tour guide and automatically point out landmarks, historical facts. How many time have people drove by noteworthy places not releasing they are missing out on some interesting stuff.