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Real Life Doom With Point-And-Shoot Positioning
SoupIsGoodFood_42 writes "A company called GeoVector has come up with a system that lets you point out a location. They say it could be used to get info on buildings and objects. E.G. pointing your mobile device at a movie theater could tell you what's on. They've also developed a "real world" version of Doom. So don't be surprised if you're in Japan early next year and see people running holding their cellphone/PDA like a gun."
I want it built into my sun glasses, so I if I focus on an object for 250 ms, it pops up a little yellow box telling me what it is.
This sounds like the rangefinding/GPS binoculars the military uses to read off bombing coordinates now.
Im surprised how fast it came to the civilian market. With affordable cruise missle technology available soon, ordinairy citizens will be able to carry out their own starcraft style airstrikes (minus the cute red dot and the mushroom cloud of course, but who knows).
Now public schools will again have a rationale for prohibiting cell phones in school!
Jeff Bezos has an exclusive patent on pointing at stuff.
Great, now as if people don't think I'm geeky enough I can run around pointing my cell phone at shit expecting to Zap it.....
I am an oragami folding ninja.
This is what we need, lots of sketchy looking people running around aiming there cell-phones like they are real weapons, am I the only one seeing a problem with this.
"Put the money in the bag or get fragged Mr. Johnson!"
Just one great idea after the other.
In fact, this is probably from the same folks who make water pistols that look EXACTLY like real guns.
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I want the devices to be shaped like guns, just to piss all those anti-violence-in-videogames people off. "I'm not REALLY shooting them! I'm just aiming a realistic looking gun at them and pulling the trigger, thus gaining rewards in-game! Training me to be a killer indeed..."
I am a filthy pirate.
It would be better if you could point it at hot girls and it would search the Internet for pictures of them without any clothes on.
Oh yes! my prayers have been recieved! I can now look like a total geek-fool in front of many people by shooting them with my mobile phone wee!!! This is going to be a good thing for the geek culture though. Instead of fat geeks, we'll get super thin, fast reaction, quick thinking, tactical geeks. The superhumans of tomorrow!
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E.G. pointing your mobile device at a movie theater could tell you what's on
Or you could look at the sign.
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
It had better have a grapple, and a rocket launcher. (of course, said rocket launcher would only hurt humans, and not damage buildings in any way)
I'd rather have a jamming device to stop stupid people from running around my house and "camping" behind my garage. Also, hearing some 14 year old yell out "OMFG YUO AWN* FAGGOT!!!" in my backyard at 07:00 is probably NOT the best way to get my day started.
* = Arctic Warfare Nokia. Just a regular Nokia with snow camouflage colours.
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First we have cellphones that spend money, now we have phones that can identify stuff when they're pointed at it?
One day I'll not be able to find my phone cos it's nicked my car keys, stolen my money and gone out with its mates on the piss at a nightclub.
It appears as though you are trying to stare at that blonde woman's breasts. Would you like me to...
A) Order some pornographic material to relieve your urges?
B) Zoom in?
C) Shut the fuck up and let you carry on ogling?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
it's called lasertag.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
"A 22-year old college student was fatally shot by a police officer mistaking the student's cell phone for a gun. The student was apparently playing the Real-Life (TM) DOOM (TM) game that is the rage on college campuses world-wide."
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.
Well, I do agree with you, but I guess some parents feel differently. Found this article about how great cells in schools are. A few good points, but I still think they are too distracting and annoying.
When I was in high school, several times a week I found myself needing my cell phone to arrange for rides or coordinate plans with my parents. When I didn't have my phone, I was left high and dry, with no communication and no way to get home, more than once.
I can understand this being put into a cellphone, and I can see the utility of it.
However, what I want is a nice 10 Mpixel camera with this in it - record when the shot was taken, where, and what the bearing was.
Add that and perhaps a short, low-rate voice note, and maintaining my photo collection would become a great deal easier.
OT: If you have a photo collection, do those who come after you a favor and LABEL your pictures - date, names of the people in them, event, and why you felt this was important enough to take a picture of. I had to go through both my mother and my grandmother's estates, and it was sad to see the number of pictures of somebody somewhere at sometime - I'm sure some of them had some meaning to the family, but what has been lost to time....
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This was the rage in the 80s. Basically you had a target. You went around with a rubber sticky dart gun hunting your mark. If you "killed" him, you then went after his target. And so on, until one was left.
Then one day the inevitable happened. A guy was pinting his very real dart gun at someone at night, and a security officer blew him away.
My Nokia BFG should arrive any day now...
Or, gamers could just discover paintball..
Ummmm Japan has a game called airsoft. It has replica's of pretty much any gun available in the world (and if it's not available, build it yourself) this game is VERY popular in Japan. The guns fire small plastic BBs that hurt less than paintballs (but fly farther and are way more accurate.) I know a bunch of people who play it in the states (like half the number of people that play paintball play airsoft) but in Japan it is much more popular.
I've even seen a few anime's where some of the main characters would play airsoft (like all the time and they'd always talk about it in all the episodes, not like one time and forget about it.) I don't think their's a show in america where any of the characters play paintball. Besides, I don't think their's a gamer I know who never heard of paintball And 90% of the people who play games like CS love airsoft (after they find out it exists.) You can check out some of the guns and info here
Redwolf Airsoft
Or here is one of the best airsoft stores in the world (with it's main store located in Japan)
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