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Development. Opensource. Java. Twitter. Ubiquity. ISCRAM: Crisis management - multistakeholders - citylabs. Smarty : Template Engine. Main Page - InfoVis:Wiki. The Wearable Internet Will Blow Mobile Phones Away. Earlier this year at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group showcased a wearable computing system that allows users to display and interact with the Web on any surface - including the human body.

The Wearable Internet Will Blow Mobile Phones Away

The video shows the system's main developer, Pranav Mistry, taking photographs with his hand, summoning up Amazon review data onto the cover of a physical book, displaying information about a person he's just met on their tee-shirt, and calling someone by inputting a phone number onto the palm of his hand. Look out mobile phones, because in a decade's time wearable systems may be the primary means of accessing the Web! In the TED presentation, Maes refers to this system as a "sixth sense" - a sense that would give us seamless, easy access to information on the fly about situations and objects we come across. The current system, albeit relatively clunky, could be purchased for as little as $350. The Internet as Sixth Sense.