Metaio, a software development company focused on augmented reality, is developing a mobile application that allows users to drop or tag locations with personal messages, websites or even complex 3D models.  With an interface similar to the augmented reality tweet viewer, the forthcoming application makes it possible to leave their virtual messages to be picked up by specific people or even create augmented graffiti on public space.
The possibilities of general commenting could integrate with Yelp to help see recent comments on nearby restaurants or alert friends of your whereabouts in an augmented reality view…with a dragon.  It is not known when [...]

The New York Times’ Idea of the Day Blog recently led us to an interesting article in the Atlantic discussing the complex predictions of “intelligence augmentation” and how our species will adapt to exponential information with faster cognitive abilities.  Author Jamais Cascio examines the history of human intelligence and argues that as our information filtering abilities increase it will be inevitable to experiment and then utilize technologies to make you smarter.
While an article in the Atlantic from last summer argues that Google is making us stupid, Cascio argues this summer that Google is making us smarter by providing an efficient [...]

Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey combines performance art with video and technology. The Rhizome Commisions supports new media artists with grants for projects, and Jeremy’s proposal is to create a Dialectical Software Gundam Suit.
Jeremy’s project intends to:
create a new live performance involving a software “suit” that augments and extends both the creative and destructive abilities of the performer (myself). The image of the suit will be superimposed in real-time over the artist during the performance. The work will be satirical, but will appear as a sincere attempt by the artist to create a more advanced human form.
[ via Beautiful/Decay ]