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World of Fourcraft turns Foursquare into city wide game of Risk

Something like this would get me to use Foursquare every minute of every day. via Mashable: World of Fourcraft uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk. Users decide which team they are on by swearing allegiance to one of New York City’s five boroughs. Checking [...]

Minority Report: expect commercial spatial interfaces in 3 years
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Oblong Industries, led by Chief Scientist John Underkoffler (the guy who advised the filmmakers behind Steve Spielberg’s 2002 film Minority Report) have unveiled a Spatial Operating Environment (SOE) called Mezzanine. Think of it as the first commercially viable step towards the gesture controlled interface made famous by Tom Cruise in the movie. Oblong have been [...]

MightyText – calls & texts from Android to PC in real time

via Engadget: Have you ever missed an extremely important phone call or text because you were too busy finishing those TPS reports on your personal computing machine? There’s a Chrome add-on for that. We went hands-on with a new extension (and accompanying Android app) called MightyText, a free notification service launched today that syncs your phone’s texts [...]