E With Id-Chips in every product you can access directly relevant information in the internet. That doesn’t have to be information provided by the companies. Many independent institutions offer product information and help for your purchasing decision. The information could concern quality, price-performance ratio or social behavior of the company.
D Durch Id-Chips in den Produkten […]
E Rangers could mark the deer-population with ID-chips. That could prevent car accidents by warning the driver when a deer gets to near the street. It would also help to make the hunters job much more easy.
D Der Wildbestand könnte mit ID-chips markiert werden. So könnten Unfälle vermieden werden, indem der Autofahrer gewarnt würde sobald […]
E For school it could be useful to combine real objects with virtual information. Objects tagged in such a way could react on their environment. In our example the student can use the real skeleton by pointing at his own body. X-ray photos of the bones in question are projected on the chalk board.
D Für […]
E A user marks a place as one of his personal favourites. After he has done this with several places, the system can detect other persons with a similar taste in places and recommend their favourites to the user.
According to the “small network theory” such a system could easily recommend places very far away from […]
E The GPS-System in a mobile computer can of course also be used to according to it’s original purpose: To show distances, directions and heights.
D Das GPS-System in den mobilen Endgeräten kann natürlich auch seiner klassischen Funktion gemäß dazu genutzt werden, Entfernungen, Himmelsrichtungen und Höhenunterschiede anzuzeigen.
E PDAs or head-up-displays with GPS location can of course provide a navigation system. In our example a simple system for pedestrians.
D Die Taschencomputer oder Datenbrillen der Zukunft, werden natürlich auch die Hauptfunktion heutiger GPS-Geräte abdecken und Navigationshilfe bieten.
Hier ein Beispiel, wie ein einfaches Navigationssystem zu Fuß aussehen könnte.
E It is possible to link any information with objects or places. If we search for information about a table in a kind of “object-wikipedia” we will probably find something about the designer of the table or the manufacturer.
For ourselves we could place a virtual vase on it or draw a digital graffiti over it.
D […]
E The localized information in the Internet of Places can take every form which can be stored in a computer.
Digital graffiti can be placed everywhere: in the air, under water or simply on a white wall.
D Die ortsgebundene Information im Internet of Places kann jede digital zu verarbeitende Form annehmen.
Digitales Graffiti kann überall platziert […]
E Looking through the display, we see the directions to a nearby inn.
D Der Blick durch das Display zeigt den Weg zu einer nahen Gaststätte.
E When the signal from an RFID-Chip is strong enough, it would be possible to see through the walls of a garage what kind of cars are parked inside.
D Wenn die Radio-Signale von RFID-Chips über größere Entfernungen hinweg und durch Wände hindurch ausgelesen werden können, ist es möglich durch eine Garagenwand hindurch zu erkennen, […]