I read somewhere that Big Ben can now
twitter you for the time and guess how many people signed up? Over 50,000 and I
guess there are lot of people don’t trust their watches. The Great Wall of
China will soon be sending you messages saying how many people were up there in
any given day or the US federal government sending you at a given time
how big the deficit is and how much it is costing you as a tax payer or how
much debt every new born baby has. Or North Korean government to use Twitter to announce how
many soldiers or missiles they have at one given time.
White House was using Twitter to keep
the momentum going and keeping track of which Democratic lawmakers had changed
their minds and decided to vote in favor of the bill. That’s a creative use.
Politicians fully understand the power of Twitter's ability mobilize grassroots support for their
legislative agendas.
We can expect to see many interesting
use in the next 12 months. Any physical objects could become a real-time
visualization tool for anything. A company called Violet, which makes Mirror, an RFID reader USB-attached mirror
that enables any computer to react to the presence of an object. he Mirror’ is one of
the coolest gadgets I’ve seen in a long time. Hook the $60 plate up to your Mac and get ready to read some RFID tags. The set includes Ztamps (basically
RFID tags) that you can stick on objects and assign actions.
For instance, say
you attach one to a toy car. When you put the toy car on top of the The Mirror
by Violet, it could open up your browser for you to read your favorite car blogs. There can be
so many creative applications, there are the three that I can think of such as