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A story for every object, iPhone RFID

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
16-05-2009
technology

What if every object could tell its own story? Haven’t you wished that you could just google any­thing? Well if you use RFID you can get infor­ma­tion from any object that has an elec­tronic tag. Each object in a way is a smart object.

If you have a reader attached to a device like a smart device, in this case an iPhone. You can come in prox­im­ity of the object and tell you the object’s story. It’s pretty inter­est­ing tech­nol­ogy that can be used say for tour­ing muse­ums. You step up to a paint­ing or sculp­ture and put your iphone next to the label. It rec­og­nizes the paint­ing and allows you to see con­tent about the work. Add links to sources on the net and an expan­tion of infor­ma­tion based on your interests.

This is a nifty video show­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of using RFID. If you want to know more Check out this post: http://www.nearfield.org/2009/04/iphone-rfid-nfc

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iPhone-optimized Kindle bookstore

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
11-05-2009
technology

Fol­low­ing what Ama­zon is up to our asser­tions ring true now that Ama­zon has intro­duced a ver­sion of the Kin­dle elec­tronic book­store. This has been cre­ated to make it eas­ier for iPhone and iPod Touch users to access Kin­dle content.

from : Appleinsider :

Released March 4th, the Kin­dle for iPhone appli­ca­tion quickly became the most pop­u­lar books appli­ca­tion on Apple’s App Store. It ties into Amazon’s 3G Whis­per­sync tech­nol­ogy, which saves and syn­chro­nizes Kin­dle cus­tomers’ book­marks across Kin­dles, iPhones and iPod touches, so users never lose their place. For instance, users can read a few pages on their iPhone or iPod touch and pick up right where they left off on their Kin­dle device, or vise versa.

Now we wait for Apple to release its new tablet device and see what happens.

What does Ama­zon really want? They want to tap into the huge iPhone/iPod Touch installed base.

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Beta test Kindle for only 500 bucks

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
06-05-2009
culture, technology

Do you usu­ally pay to be a beta tester? Not me. I usu­ally get some­thing free for debug­ging somone’s product.

Well today Ama­zon released the big­ger dog of their reader and will charge you about $500 bucks for a device that looks like a card­board pro­to­type of a tech­nol­ogy prod­uct from the 80’s.

Expec­ta­tions for elec­tronic devices are con­sid­er­ably more sophis­ti­cated than what the Kin­dle offers. Now of course Ama­zon is just warm­ing up the mar­ket for a smart inno­v­a­tive com­pany like Apple or a smart startup to take over much like Apple did with the iPod. I actu­ally think that Ama­zon doesn’t care. Ama­zon is all about the dis­tri­b­u­tion chain. They want to sell you the con­tent not the device. They just cre­ated the device to cre­ate more inter­est in read­ing. Cer­tainly the pub­lish­ing indus­try doesn’t under­stand how to do that. But will this actu­ally rein­vig­o­rate the read­ing mar­ket? That remains to be seen.

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