Archive for January, 2006

My Landmarks / Meine Landmarken

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

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 […]

Position Data / Positionsdaten

Monday, January 30th, 2006

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.

Pedestrian navigation / Navigation zu Fuß

Monday, January 30th, 2006

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.

Objekt-Informationen

Monday, January 30th, 2006

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 […]

Digital graffiti / Digitales Graffiti

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

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 […]

Exhibition posters / Ausstellungsplakate

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Gaststätte / Inn

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

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.

Garage / Garagen

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

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, […]

Scanning / Auslesen

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

E  Products tagged with RFID can be recognized by every RFID-Scanner. If you buy them with a credit-card the product-id could be connected to your name.
If there were enough RFID-Scanners around to track the signal continuously one could follow the path of a product for its whole life-time. That would create a complex map of […]

Speed limit / Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

E  GPS-Systems in cars cannot just provide orientation. They could also control if you follow the speed limit in that particular area.
D  GPS-Systeme in Fahrzeugen können nicht nur zur Orientierung genutzt werden. Sie könnten auch genutzt werden, um zu kontrollieren, ob Sie das Tempolimit im jeweilligen Gebiet einhalten.