Amazing Concept Computer Puts The Real World Inside The Internet

Holy smoke! This concept design from Mac Funamizu should be made today. The unnamed project uses a camera, scanner, GPS and see-through display to assimilate just about anything.

Point it at a street or landscape and it will use position and visual information to work out what you are looking at, and then pull down any relevant information from the internet. Then you can click on your image to zoom and explore in further detail. The floor-plan of a building or the menu of a restaurant, for instance.

The other picture shows the device, which Yanko Design has dubbed The Looking Glass, sitting on top of a newspaper and allowing copying and highlighting of the text. The more I think about this, the more amazing the possibilities. I belive there are already some services out there which use a phone's camera to locate the user, so perhaps this isn't so far fetched after all.