This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot.
Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more details of the building.
Well, it doesn’t have to be a building, but it can be any object you see. You can use it when you want to know a car model, an insect name, what kind of food is served at a restaurant and how much, who built a bridge, etc. etc. But as a designer myself, I hope it’s able to tell me a name of a font of the type I see, the size, color (in RGB), and so on.
It’s got a scanner built in, so you can use it this way when you want to check the meaning of a word in the newspaper, book, magazine, etc.
Indoor guide
Works in a building, airport, station, hospital, etc.
Weather forecast, as it is directed towards the sky, it gives out the weather forecast of the area.
It tells the Relative hight of the tower or building as directed towards it.
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You forgot about the part where Google ads take up half the screen real estate, and connections are a bitch on it because it’s such a bandwidth hog on a network that is woefully outdated and already pushed to the maximum.
Gadgets like this is not going to be reality for me in very near future. In addition one of the recent happenings has really made me afraid of hightech gadgtets.
Amazing post! man if you are right than it will be much easier for us to searches by just using the transparent device and we can know what the things is. Thanks for posting…