Augmented Identity

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24639/?a=f

by njrc • 16 years ago

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ericd• 16 years ago

I can't wait for someone to combine this with a glasses based HUD. If one could feed their algorithm the Facebook corpus of pictures to train it on, you could recognize a significant percentage of random people on the street.

csmeder• 16 years ago

Privacy advocates are going to go nuts.

marshally• 16 years ago

An identity stealing telephone?

The kids these days.

Back when I was your age, we had to join a secret government agency, just to get a telephone installed in our shoes! And the fax technique involved standing on a waffle iron. Can you imagine?

lsc• 16 years ago

Heh. I wonder if wearing full-face visors or respirator masks or other identity-obscuring veils will become popular in the future? I mean, think how hard it is for a celebrity to go out in public now; and it would only take a few of them to start a 'privacy trend'

blogimus• 16 years ago

Good lot it did Michael Jackson.

Augmented Identity

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