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Get ready to ride the Google Wave – Google announces their new vision of the web!

Google has unveiled an early preview of an online collaboration and communication environment called ‘Wave’ and is inviting developers to get involved in the open-source project.  Read More.

From Google:

A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Video from the developers:

Links to other great articles: 

Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

Google Wave: Google Tries to Reinvent Email

Google Wave Article from GoogleSystem

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Pretty cool, dontcha think?  Something for all of us to look forward to.  :D

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Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry unveil the “Sixth Sense” game-changing wearable tech at TED Conference 2009.

If you have a few minutes, check out this 8 minute video featuring Pattie Maes (MIT) presenting new wearable technology that will allow the user “seamless access to meta information.”     VERY cool and not unlike Minority Report.

They were able to create this prototype for approximately $350:

The user would theoretically be able to walk into a book store, pick up a book, and the amazon.com rating would project on the cover along with other pertinent information about the book and even suggest related books or authors:

The device can project on nearly anything, including your hand in a pinch:

Can you imagine all the potential uses this could have in a library setting?   :)

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