Future phones may send data and apps via photography
You know the drill: you want to send a Google map from your iMac to your iPhone, so you email a link to the page to your iPhone, open Mail on the phone, and then tap on the link on the email message to open Apple's Maps app. If MIT and some Google researchers have their way, you'll soon be able to just snap a photo of a web page on your Mac screen to open it on your phone.
The capability was demonstrated in May at a computer-human interaction conference. Project Deep Shot is the brainchild of MIT grad student Tsung-Hsiang Chung and Google's Yang Li, and works not only for transferring tasks to mobile devices, but from those devices back to personal computers as well.
Google owns the technology, but has not said if or when it will make Deep Shot available to the public. Be sure to check out the video below for a demonstration of the technology in action.
[via AllThingsD]
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You'll soon be able to just snap a photo of a web page on your Mac screen to open it on your iPhone
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OMG is that a nexus One device!! sacrilegious for TUAW lol
June 28 2011 at 7:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis is dumb. An ad-hoc network connection is faster and requires less effort from the user.
June 22 2011 at 1:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think that Google is more interested in launching this technology before others companies
June 21 2011 at 9:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replywww.web-privacy.no.tc
June 21 2011 at 6:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replynever really thought about it liek that before. Makes sense dude.
June 21 2011 at 6:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhile kind of nifty, I'm not seeing this as being much more impacting than the current abilities of QR codes. I have a QR reader app on my iPhone, and I have a Firefox extension that allows me to create a QR code for any page I'm viewing (Google Maps included).
June 20 2011 at 9:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIs this the hight of the computer age? Sending/sharing basic data by *taking a picture* and post-processing it on a mobile device?
June 20 2011 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis is fantastic. I've been working a lot lately with my laptop open in front of my desktop and I keep wanting to just "flick" things from the laptop to the desktop. While this is obviously different, it's certainly a step in the right direction.
June 20 2011 at 6:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo, like a QR code? wow, inventive.
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