Call me now: 650 273 5600Real-time digital information can be gleaned through using the camera on your mobile phone. Layar is one of the companies leading the pack. Mobile phones are still limited in their AR capacity but it won’t be long until AR apps will be able to recognize physical objects and produce deep content and detailed 3D animation sequences raising the bar on engagement and for innovation in advertising.
On Saturday, Sept 12, the 85 Broads Toronto Chapter held a Golf Clinic at Club Link. PGA Pros helped us improve our pitching, sand play, putting and swing. Following this we shared dinner and stories at the Club House. 85 Broads is a global network of 20,000 trailblazing women who are inspired, empowered, and connected. Janet Hanson and "founding members" of 85 Broads were women who worked for Goldman Sachs at 85 Broad Street, the investment banking firm's NYC headquarters. 85 Broads inspire each other to blaze new trails, scale new heights, and achieve a life of true significance.
Strapping on my magnetic belt and donning my invisible cloak I ready myself to activate my IPhone app for Teleportation. You see there is this guy I would like to see so I thought I would drop in for a visit. He lives in another city from me though, so normally I would have had to take an old expensive plane, train or automobile to get there. That was before I discovered this wonderful new mobile app at the mobile app store. Not only do I save money, I am where I want to be in a flash.
Sound outrageous? Perhaps, but I have discovered a love affair with the impossible, or as some would call “crazy”, is a way of avoiding smug complacency. And, I find I am not alone.
The CTO at Microsoft, Craig Mundie remarked recently that metamaterials will allow us to perform once thought of to be “impossible feats”. He is supported by a group of physicists who have concurred that concepts such as teleportation and invisibility that do not violate the know laws of physics are possible.
Mobile apps are about making our lives easier and more connected. Get Jar an application intermediary and supporter of a developer community of 350,000 creatives just launched a service that helps people find the right version of app for their phone by automatically detecting the phone type. They tested their new service with Facebook recently and were astounded to receive 8.5 million downloads in less than two months. The Apple Store has seen a lot of success too. It’s home to 65,000 apps and 1.5 million downloads. And Playfish, a social gaming company, reported 15 million people have played “Who Has the Biggest Brain” taking it to the top of the ITunes Chart. (In this new age we are all such narcissists!)
I can’t help but wonder with all these one-hit numbers if anyone is making any money? With Skype and smartphone web browsers hogging bandwidth the carriers like AT&T,Verizon and Bell are all looking at new angles for survival. Last year they saw growth in data over their networks of 1,000% and this is expected to double annually. They are exploring enhancements to the mobile web experience that will compensate them for falling data rates.
Google says the days of app stores are numbered and that the focus is on developing powerful web browsers to deliver services. People want to integrate their lives in one place and in the future the mobile web will be stored in the cloud.
Okay….”Beam me up Scotty”… there’s someone I want to see beyond the mobile frontier.
To achieve the impossible, attempt the absurd. Then, you can sit back, have a martini (with really good olives) and say "screw the jealous naysayers".
