June 27, 2006 10:40 AM PDT

With a cell phone as your guide

Service in Japan lets you point a cell phone at something of interest to display information about the object.
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Interacting with the real world
This kind of interaction with the physical world - particularly being able to interrogate your physical surroundings - will clearly offer benefits and value as mobile search/gis/navigation all come together.

Interestingly a small UK company is pursuing some similar ideas (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.viewranger.com/vrproductdemo.php" target="_newWindow">http://www.viewranger.com/vrproductdemo.php</a>) that annotate the world and then allow the user to access information, though their focus is somewhat different.
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