“Scottish researchers are turning camera phones to help bridge the virtual world and the real world.Using image-matching algorithms the researchers have found a way to adorn the real world with digital content.

The technology has already been used to create a guide of Edinburgh that allows people to find virtual artworks placed around the city using their mobile.

Another related project uses the technology to automatically update a person’s blog with their location.

“It’s about using a camera phone as a magic wand,” said Dr Mark Wright of the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh who came up with the idea.”

When I read this story via the BBC website I was thinking what great spy stuff could be done with this technology not to mention the new types of games that can be played with this new technology. Everyone should click over and read the entire story via the BBC website.

Just got off the website World In Conflict and it says that you can download a Beta version of the game and if you pre order the game then yo ucan also play other maps on the Beta version others can not. I have decided to give it a try and am downloading the game as we speak on a cable connection but my download speed is at 99 KB per second and it is a 3.6 gigabyte download so it is going to take atleast five hours to get it.

“Microsoft’s IE7 is out, Firefox 2 is on the horizon… and is there still room for Opera?”

Ofcourse and I see more browsers coming and we will have a 3.0 run offwith everyone above and atleast one more if not two.

“Alan H. Goldstein, inventor of the A-PRIZE, and popular science columnist, says: Scientists are on the verge of breaking the carbon barrier — creating artificial life and changing forever what it means to be human. And we’re not ready… Nanofabricated animats may be infinitesimally tiny, but their electrons will be exactly the same size as ours — and their effect on human reality will be as immeasurable as the universe. Like an inverted SETI program, humanity must now look inward, constantly scanning technology space for animats, or their progenitors. The first alien life may not come from the stars, but from ourselves.”