Tuesday, May 29, 2007

where fair

After the evening reception in the exhibit hall, I checked out the Where Fair.

  • Hyper Cities of Berlin and Rome - Visit a city at any time and point. Brings together old maps and new to give location a temporal context.
  • Geocodr - geocode places and events using tags and descriptions of photos on Flickr.com
  • Plundr - location aware gaming for the PC and Nintendo DS
  • iFind - location based social software on MIT campus
  • Polytransit - Like OpenMap, create open source transit and transportation mapping site
  • GPS-enabled shoes
  • World without Oil
  • WayMarkr- self-documenting wearable device with unlimited disk space. Another way to document one's life.
  • Mobzombies - A game where you run away from 8-bit zombies by actually running. Your actual position controls you character and gameplay
  • Voicing the Earth - adding sound to Google Earth
  • Continental Divide Trail Project - mapping the Continental Divide Trail
    • backpacker.com/hikes/cdt
  • Serendipity - UCLA software that records changing map of Bluetooth devices near a mobile user...social analysis
  • mscapers.com - tools for developing immersive games/environments

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