Augmented Reality on Mobiles and Geographical Search

This product called Wikitude AR Travel Guide from MOBILIZY is just amazing:

It uses Google Android as the base platform.(h/t: Ed Parsons)

Mobile Search

Taptu is a search engine that presents results in a format acceptable to a mobile phone. They have a very simple interface for a mobile phone.

Search can be done on the following sources: All, Images, Videos, Music, Web, Artists, Blog Posts, Desktop Web, Movie Info, News Stories, Song lyrics, Songs, Travel Guides, Videos, Wikipedia.

One thing that is clear here, it doesn't use location or contextual information to refine the search as yet, its just a search for a mobile phone.

Here's some results on he 'Bowie Berlin' query set:

• David Bowie Low.


• David Bowie "Heroes".


• David Bowie lodger.


• Iggy Pop lust for life.


• David Bowie the man who sold the world.


• David Bowie hunky dory.


• David Bowie Aladdin Sane.


• David Bowie ziggy stardust.

The result is generally in there somewhere (note: all searches were done on the desktop).

Posts in the series are available here.

Mobile identity

There are a number of things I like about this talk by Jan Chipchase including the concept of mobile identity:

It made me wonder - how could we use these ideas for mobile search? (no I don't have any answers).

UPDATE:

Jan Chipchase talking about design for illerate users: