Category Archives: future

The future is already here, it’s just not worth distributing yet

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Thomas Purves

In 1975, Steve Sasson of Kodak invented the first portable digital camera. It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images – a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured … Continue reading →

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Presentation: Design for an Augment Reality world

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Thomas Purves

For posterity here is the slideshare version of my Augmented Reality talk, which I presented for the first time at Refresh Events in Toronto. As a first cut, this presentation represented more of a shotgun scattershot rather than a linearly … Continue reading →

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How the mobile web and “augmented reality” changes retail forever

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Thomas Purves

At South by southwest interactive this week (SXSW) a huge theme was “augmented reality” the idea of, Amazon-app style, pointing your phone at any product to get more information -or a better price- online. We’re getting to a world where … Continue reading →

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