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Augmented reality bites

It’s funny (and kinda cool) how a single You Tube video can send a person off on a mind-blowing technological journey of discovery.  That’s one of the things I love about researching on the Internet – just clicking on a random link can lead you down a virtual alleyway to places you’ve never dreamed of.

The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago when some of my students showed a TED video in class about Sixth Sense Technology.  I, like everyone in the TED audience, was amazed at the promise that user interface technology like this holds.  Hang on a minute – what’s user interface technology?

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Web2Go Budget Busters: (Almost) Free Online Fun

Too cold, out of shape or lazy to go out? Web2Go brings fun and frivolity right to your desktop.

It’s confession time again.

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All I want for Christmas is … Web 2.0 stuff.

With less than a month until Christmas here’s Web2Go’s handy Christmas gift guide.

I don’t know about you, but I’m hopeless at Christmas shopping.

Every year I swear that I’m going to be super-organised and buy bits and pieces as I go so that I don’t end up in the usual ‘only-24-hours-to-go-until-Christmas-oh-no’ frenzy. Somehow it never eventuates.

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The virtual world is your oyster

Sick of your real life, your real body and your real problems? Now you’ve got more options than ever before to stake out your own corner of cyberspace and get away from it all.

A few days ago Google launched its new virtual reality project called Lively.

It enables you to create your own virtual chat space and avatar online and chat with other people’s avatars. If the chat gets a little boring Lively also lets you invite others to decorate your virtual chat space and they can invite you to decorate theirs.

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